My follies have not run that way." "Thank God! Then there is no reason why you should not marry.

Oh, when I look at you I am proud, I am glad that I live! You bring my youth, my son back; and I long for a time when I may clasp your child in my arms, and know that Robert's heritage will go on and on, and that there will be made up to him, somehow, all that he lost.

Listen: I am an old, crippled, suffering woman; I shall soon have done with all this coming and going, and I speak to you out of the wisdom of sorrow.

Had Robert married, all would have gone well.

He did not: he got into trouble, then came Ian's hand in it all; and you know the end.