The Young O'Briens

Inside the hired omnibus there was a dead silence. Outside the rain lashed drearily against the window panes. From the corner where Molly sat there came a dismal, despairing sniffle, drowned, before its finish, by Denis's superlatively cheerful voice.
"Sure, 'tis a rough night entirely!" he observed airily.
Nell gave a sudden quick little laugh with a queer end to it.
"So it is!" she said, and her effort after cheerfulness gave the remark a surprised tone, as if she had not noticed before that...