Elspeth, cheer up, I tell you, I'll find a wy!" "But you didna ken yoursel' that you should have got the Hugh Blackadder ?" He would not let this depress him.

"I ken now," he said.

Nevertheless, why he should have got it was a mystery which he longed to fathom.

Mr.
Ogilvy had returned to Glenquharity, so that an explanation could not be drawn from him even if he were willing to supply it, which was improbable; but Tommy caught Grizel in the Banker's Close and compelled her to speak.
"I won't tell you a word of what Mr.Ogilvy said," she insisted, in her obstinate way, and, oh, how she despised Corp for breaking his promise.
"Corp didna ken he telled me," said Tommy, less to clear Corp than to exalt himself, "I wriggled it out o' him;" but even this did not bring Grizel to a proper frame of mind, so he said, to annoy her, "At any rate you're fond o' me." "I am not," she replied, stamping; "I think you are horrid." "What else made you send Corp to me ?" "I did that because I heard you were calling yourself a blockhead." "Oho," said he, "so you have been speiring about me though you winna speak to me!" Grizel looked alarmed, and thinking to weaken his case, said, hastily, "I very nearly kept it from you, I said often to myself 'I won't tell him.'" "So you have been thinking a lot about me!" was his prompt comment.
"If I have," she retorted, "I did not think nice things.

And what is more, I was angry with myself for telling Corp to tell you." Surely this was crushing, but apparently Tommy did not think so, for he said, "You did it against your will! That means I hare a power over you that you canna resist.