I am sure that in secret they were relieved when I was sent back to Muircarrie.
After that the life I loved went on quietly.

I studied with Angus, and made the book-walled library my own room.

I walked and rode on the moor, and I knew the people who lived in the cottages and farms on the estate.
I think they liked me, but I am not sure, because I was too shy to seem very friendly.

I was more at home with Feargus, the piper, and with some of the gardeners than I was with any one else.

I think I was lonely without knowing; but I was never unhappy.