They behoove to say that's its na the game that draws the young laird sae often to Ben Lone; but just Rab Cameron's handsome lass, Rose, and she _is_ a handsome quean as I said before; but nae 'are to mak' the young master lose his head for a' that! Sae ye maun na beleiv' a word of it, me young leddy," said Dame Girzie.
And she hastened to change the subject.
"Ah! what a power beauty is! It can make a prince forget his royal state, and sue to a peasant girl," sighed Salome to herself.

"I wonder--I wonder, if there _is_ any truth in that report?
Oh, I hope there is not, for his own sake.

I wonder where he is--what he is doing?
But that is no affair of mine.

I have nothing at all to do with it! I wonder if I shall ever meet him.

I wonder if he would think me very ugly?
Nonsense, what if he should?
He is nothing to me.