I often tell't Andra that, but he said it wud be a guid riddance ...

I'm wonderin' what Bella Bathgate thinks o' him.
It'll be great to hear her breath on't.

She's quite comin' roond to Miss Reston.

She was tellin' me she disna think there's onything veecious about her, and she's gettin' quite used to her manners." * * * * * When Pamela departed with her brother to partake of a dinner cooked by Miss Bathgate (a somewhat doubtful pleasure), Mhor went off to bed, and Jock curled himself up on the sofa with Peter, for his Friday night's extra hour with a story-book, while Jean resumed her darning of stockings.
Her thoughts were full of the sister and brother who had just left.
"Queer they are!" she thought to herself.

"If Davie came back to me after a year in India, I wouldn't have liked to meet him in somebody else's house.