text:  "But did I not hear some one " he continued "screeching violently as I came up?" "Yes Lysaght " said Miss Tyrrel "this stupid deaf old creature here who is a torment to all who meet her with her benedictions and holy water suddenly threw some of the contents of her tin (as she always does when saluting a person) on a Stranger a man she happened to be passing close to which so irritated him that he has given her a proper fright