For anger is just the electric flash of the mind, and requires to have its conductor of common sense ready at hand.

After a few moments she began again as if she had never stopped and no remarks had been made, only her voice trembled a little at first.
"Her father came home soon after, in great distress, and there he found her lying just within the door.

He saw at once how it was, and his anger was kindled against her lover more than the beast.

Not that he had any objection to her going to meet him; for although he was a gentleman and his daughter only a shepherd's daughter, they were both of the blood of the MacLeods." This was Kirsty's own clan.

And indeed I have since discovered that the original legend on which her story was founded belongs to the island of Rasay, from which she came.
"But why was he angry with the gentleman ?" asked Allister.
"Because he liked her company better than he loved herself," said Kirsty.