What if Kirsty were to go and tell Mrs.Mitchell ?" Kirsty made no attempt at protestation.

She knew well enough that my father knew there was no danger.

She only laughed, and I, seeing Kirsty satisfied, was satisfied also, and joined in the laugh.
The result was that before many weeks were over, Allister and wee Davie were Kirsty's pupils also, Allister learning to read, and wee Davie to sit still, which was the hardest task within his capacity.
They were free to come or keep away, but not to go: if they did come, Kirsty insisted on their staying out the lesson.

It soon became a regular thing.

Every morning in summer we might be seen perched on a form, under one of the tiny windows, in that delicious brown light which you seldom find but in an old clay-floored cottage.