"It's the Painted Lady's lassie," he said when she screamed, and he stormed against Tommy for taking such advantage of his blindness.
But to her he said, gently, "I daresay you egged him on to this, meaning well, but you maun forget most of what I've said, especially about being in the blood.

I spoke in haste, it doesna apply to the like of you." "Yes, it does," replied Grizel, and all that had been revealed to her she carried hot to the surgery, Tommy stopping at the door in as great perturbation as herself.

"I know what being in the blood is now," she said, tragically, to McQueen, "there is something about it in the Bible.
I am the child of evil passions, and that means that I was born with wickedness in my blood.

It is lying sleeping in me just now because I am only thirteen, and if I can prevent its waking when I am grown up I shall always be good, but a very little thing will waken it; it wants so much to be wakened, and if it is once wakened it will run all through me, and soon I shall be like mamma." It was all horribly clear to her, and she would not wait for words of comfort that could only obscure the truth.

Accompanied by Tommy, who said nothing, but often glanced at her fascinated yet alarmed, as if expecting to see the ghastly change come over her at any moment--for he was as convinced as she, and had the livelier imagination--she returned to Monypenny to beg of Blinder to tell her one thing more.