Grizel, it has just come about without either of us kenning!" She shuddered at this, and then seized him by the shoulders.

"It has not come about at all," she said, "I was only frightened that it might come, and now it can't come, for I won't let it." "But can you help yoursel' ?" "Yes, I can.

I shall never be friends with you again." She had such a capacity for keeping her word that this alarmed him, and he did his best to extinguish his lights.

"I'm no masterful, Grizel," he said, "and I dinna want to be, it was just for a minute that I liked the thought." She shook her head, but his next words had more effect.

"If I had been that kind, would I have teached you Elspeth's prayer ?" "N-no, I don't think so," she said slowly, and perhaps he would have succeeded in soothing her, had not a sudden thought brought back the terror to her face.
"What is 't now ?" he asked.
"Oh, oh, oh!" she cried, "and I nearly went away with you!" and without another word she fled from the Den.