They was talkin' in whispers, an' she was shiverin' an' gaspin' like
a fresh-hukked fish. "Are you sure you've got the hang av the
manewvers?" sez he, or wurrds to that effec', as the coort-martial
sez. "Sure as death," sez she, "but I misdoubt 'tis cruel hard on my
father." "Damn your father," sez he, or anyways 'twas fwhat he thought,
"the arrangement is as clear as mud. Jungi will drive the carr'ge
afther all's over, an' you come to the station, cool an' aisy, in time
for the two o'clock thrain, where I'll be wid your kit." "Faith,"
thinks I to myself, "thin there's a ayah in the business tu!"

'A powerful bad thing is a ayah. Don't you niver have any thruck wid
wan. Thin he began sootherin' her, an' all the orf'cers an' orf'cers'
ladies left, an' they put out the lights. To explain the theory av the
flight, as they say at Muskthry, you must understand that afther this
_Sweethearts'_ nonsinse was ended, there was another little bit av a
play called _Couples_--some kind av couple or another. The gurl was
actin' in this, but not the man. I suspicioned he'd go to the station
wid the gurl's kit at the end av the first piece. 'Twas the kit that
flusthered me, for I knew for a Capt'n to go trapesing about the impire
wid the Lord knew what av a _truso_ on his arrum was nefarious, an'
wud be worse than easin' the flag, so far as the talk aftherwards
wint.'

''Old on, Mulvaney. Wot's _truso_?' said Ortheris.

'You're an oncivilised man, me son. Whin a gurl's married, all her kit
an' 'coutrements are _truso_, which manes weddin'-portion. An' 'tis
the same whin she's runnin' away, even wid the biggest blackguard on
the Arrmy List.