My advice is for one of us to inform the police at Auchenlochan and get Dobson and his friends took up and the lady set free to do what she likes.

That is, if these folks are really molesting her, which is not yet quite clear to my mind." "Alas! It is not so simple as that," she said.

"I dare not invoke your English law, for perhaps in the eyes of that law I am a thief." "Deary me, that's a bad business," said the startled Dickson.
The two women talked together in some strange tongue, and the elder appeared to be pleading and the younger objecting.

Then Saskia seemed to come to a decision.
"I will tell you all," and she looked straight at Heritage.

"I do not think you would be cruel or false, for you have honourable faces....
Listen, then.