Not places to shrink back from--oh no! no! One could be sure, then--SURE! Feargus had lifted his bonnet with that extraordinary triumph in his look--even Feargus, who had been rather dour.
"You called them the White People," Hector MacNairn said.
Angus and Jean had known all my life.

A very old shepherd who had looked in my face when I was a baby had said I had the eyes which "SAW." It was only the saying of an old Highlander, and might not have been remembered.

Later the two began to believe I had a sight they had not.
The night before Wee Brown Elspeth had been brought to me Angus had read for the first time the story of Dark Malcolm, and as they sat near me on the moor they had been talking about it.

That was why he forgot himself when I came to ask them where the child had gone, and told him of the big, dark man with the scar on his forehead.

After that they were sure.
They had always hidden their knowledge from me because they were afraid it might frighten me to be told.