Ask Jenny to go and see the children." "'Deed she shall go; she'll be fain to do it.

Let them come and stay wi' me till their mother is mair able to look after them." Jenny heard the story that night with a dour face.

She could have said some very bitter things about Deacon Strang's daughter, but in consideration of her sickness she forbore.

The next morning she went to David's house and had a talk with Isabel.

The poor woman was so ill that Jenny had no heart to scold her; she only gave the house "a good sorting," did what she could for Isabel's comfort, and took back with her the children and their nurse.