Then Maimie suddenly dropped his hands, and throwing her arms about his neck, kissed him, and ran back to her aunt's side.
"I thought you didn't play forfeits, Maimie," said Don, in a grieved voice.

And every one was glad to laugh.
Then the minister's wife, looking round upon them all, said: "Dear children, God has been very good to us, and I think we ought to give him thanks." And standing there by the fire, they bowed their heads in a new thanksgiving to Him whose keeping never fails by day or night.

And then, with hearts and voices subdued, and with quiet good nights, they went their ways home.
But as the Cameron sleigh drove off with its load, Maimie looked back, and seeing Ranald standing by the fire, she whispered to her aunt: "Oh, auntie! Isn't he just splendid ?" But her aunt made no reply, seeing a new danger for them both, greater than that they had escaped..