But that boy has come back, and you care for him, and he is a false loon, Grizel." She had risen too, and was flashing fire on David; but he went on.
"'If the time ever comes,' he said to me, 'when you see her in torture from such a cause, speak to her openly about it.

Tell her it is I who am speaking through you.

It will be a hard task to you, but wrestle through with it, David, in memory of any little kindness I may have done you, and the great love I bore my Grizel.'" She was standing rigid now.

"Is there any more, David ?" she said in a low voice.
"Only this.

I admired you then as I admire you now.