I just told him that a boy who would break the Lord's Day by fighting, and in the very shadow of the Lord's house, when Christian people were worshiping God, was acting like a savage, and was not fit for the company of decent folk." To this his wife made no reply, but went out of the study, leaving the minister feeling very uncomfortable indeed.

But by the end of the second pipe he began to feel that, after all, Ranald had got no more than was good for him, and that he would be none the worse of it; in which comforting conviction he went to rest, and soon fell into the sleep which is supposed to be the right of the just.
Not so his wife.

Wearied though she was with the long day, its excitements and its toils, sleep would not come.

Anxious thoughts about the lad she had come to love as if he were her own son or brother kept crowding in upon her.

The vision of his fierce, dark, stormy face held her eyes awake and at length drew her from her bed.