She came to toon, a stranger.

She was a wee, bonnie creature, wi' bricht een and bright cheeks; she had a laugh that was like music in your ears.

Half the young men in the toon went coortin' her frae the moment they first clapped een upon her.

Andy and Jamie was among them--aye, Jamie the woman hater, the bashfu' yin! And, wad ye believe it, it was Jamie hung on and on when all the ithers had gie'n up the chase and left the field to Andy?
She liked them both richt weel; that much we could all see.

But noo it was that Andy found oot that he'd been spending what he had wi' tae free a hand.