As she saw herself able to fight and win once more, her pride returned to her, and one day she could ask David, joyously, to give her a present of the old doctor's chair.

And she could kneel by its side and say to it, "You can watch me always; I am just as I used to be." Seeing her once more the incarnation of vigor and content, singing gaily to his child, and as eager to be at her duties betimes as a morning in May, Corp grunted with delight, and was a hero for not telling her that it was he who had passed Tommy the word.

For, of course, Tommy had done it all.
"Somebody has found a wy, Grizel!" he would say, chuckling, and she smiled an agreement.
"And yet," says he, puzzled, "I've watched, and you hinna haen a letter frae him.

It defies the face o' clay to find out how he has managed it.

Oh, the crittur! Ay, I suppose you dinna want to tell me what it is that has lichted you up again ?" She could not tell him, for it was a compact she had made with one who did not sign it.