"There's no good ever comes of these secret meetings.
They're not frank, not honest truly, and I ought to have seen it.

People have begun to talk; and it's not right of me.

Do you see ?" "I see somebody will have been talking to ye," she said sullenly.
"They have, more than one of them," replied Archie.
"And whae were they ?" she cried.

"And what kind o' love do ye ca' that, that's ready to gang round like a whirligig at folk talking?
Do ye think they havena talked to me ?" "Have they indeed ?" said Archie, with a quick breath.

"That is what I feared.