"Come, come, now," said O’Reilly, thinking it time to intervene.  "Sure, any one could see it was nothing but an accident that might have happened to the Lord Mayor of Dublin himself.  You gentlemen have got splashed; faith, so have I.  Look at me!  The right way to look at it is that we’re all suffering in a good cause—martyrs of science, and I wouldn’t say but we’ve got off lightly."