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And Colonel Arran invoked the lower law; and the justice that was done him destroyed--a woman." She looked up steadily into Ailsa's eyes.
"She was only a young girl, Honey-bud--too young to marry anybody, too inexperienced to know her own heart until it was too late.
"And Colonel Arran came; and he was ve'y splendid, and handsome, and impressive in his cold, heavy dignity, and ve'y certain that the child must marry him--so certain that she woke up one day and found that she had done it.

And learned that she did not love him.
"There was a boy cousin.