Complex sentence: The wife of one of his captains, Lady Clonfert, seeks passage with Aubrey to enable her to join her husband but Aubrey is not keen on this and contrives to leave early one morning without her.
Split into simpler sentences: The wife of one of his captains, Lady Clonfert, seeks passage with Aubrey to enable her to join her husband. But Aubrey is not keen on this and contrives to leave early one morning without her.