It was for my father's sake, and the sake of the Land, and I felt that it was a part of my duty to live.

And so I lived on, when death would have been relief.
It was to tell you all about this that I came to your room to-day.

But how did you see me--us--married ?" "Ah, my child!" I answered, "that was before the marriage took place.
The morn after the night that you came in the wet, when, having been troubled in uncanny dreaming, I came to see if Rupert was a'richt, I lost remembrance o' my dreaming, for the floor was all wet, and that took off my attention.

But later, the morn after Rupert used his fire in his room for the first time, I told him what I had dreamt; for, lassie, my dear, I saw ye as bride at that weddin' in fine lace o'er yer shrood, and orange-flowers and ithers in yer black hair; an' I saw the stars in yer bonny een--the een I love.

But oh, my dear, when I saw the shrood, and kent what it might mean, I expeckit to see the worms crawl round yer feet.