"It's the only place I hinna telled you o'," she said.
"Had you forget, it mother ?" Forget the Den! Ah, no, Tommy, your mother had not forgotten the Den.
"And, listen, Elspeth, in the Den there's a bonny spring of water called the Cuttle Well.

Had you forgot the Cuttle Well, mother ?" No, no; when Jean Myles forgot the names of her children she would still remember the Cuttle Well.

Regardless now of the whispering between Tommy and Elspeth, she sat long over the fire, and it is not difficult to fathom her thoughts.

They were of the Den and the Cuttle Well.
Into the life of every man, and no woman, there comes a moment when he learns suddenly that he is held eligible for marriage.

A girl gives him the jag, and it brings out the perspiration.