There was a young man also, named Thomas, whom Mary Erskine employed to come and stay there all day, to take the necessary care of the cattle and of the farm.

They made a bed for Thomas in the scaffold in the barn.

They also made up a bed in the stoop, in a corner which they divided off by means of a curtain.

This bed was for the watchers, and for Mary Erskine herself, when she or they wished to lie down.

Mary Erskine went to it, herself very seldom.