I see it plain enough now.

You ken your power over her; the honest man that thinks he could take her frae you is to you but a divert." He took a step nearer Tommy.

"Listen," he said.

"When you came back he was on the point o' speiring her; I saw it in his face as she was playing the piano, and she saw it, too, for her hands began to trem'le and the tune wouldna play.

I daursay you think I was keeking, but if I was I stoppit it when the piano stoppit; it was a hard thing to me to do, and it would hae been an easy thing no to do, but I wouldna spy upon Elspeth in her great hour." "I like you for that, Aaron," Tommy said; but Aaron waved his likes aside.
"The reason I stood at the door," he continued, "was to keep you out o' that room.