I could not be expected to adjust my views in the short space of a night.
"You gave me a rough handling," I said, "Where was the need of it ?" "And you showed very little sense in bursting in on us the way you did! Could you not have bided quietly till Shalah gave the word?
I had to be harsh with you, or they would have suspected something and cut your throat.

Yon gentry are not to take liberties with.

What made you do it, Andrew ?" "Just that I was black afraid.

That made me more feared of being a coward, so I forced myself to yon folly." "A very honourable reason," he said.
"Are you the leader of those men ?" I asked.

"They looked a scurvy lot.
Do you call that a proper occupation for the best blood in Breadalbane ?" It was a silly speech, and I could have bitten my tongue out when I had uttered it.