She had heard all about the dominie, and she met him like a daughter.

Colin had kept his word.

This fair, sunny-haired, blue-eyed woman was the wife he had dreamed about; and Tallisker told him he had at any rate done right in that matter.

"The bonnie little Republican," as he called her, queened it over the dominie from the first hour of their acquaintance.
He stayed a week in London, and during it visited Colin's studio.

He went there at Colin's urgent request, but with evident reluctance.