I saw by the clock on the mantel that it only lacked a quarter to ten o'clock, sae I e'en made my duty to his lairdship and run down stairs, ran a' the way o'er to Castle Lone, for I war fain to see the decorations.

I got to Malcolm's Tower just in time to hear the auld clock in the turret strike eleven, and to see the mon and the woman meet thegither in the shadows." "Are you sure that you could not identify that man or woman ?" "Anan ?" "Would you know either of them again ?" inquired Mr.Guthrie, changing the manner of his question.
"Na! I tauld ye sae before.

They were half hidden i' the bushes." "You say it was a quarter to ten when you left Lord Arondelle in his room at the inn ?" "Ay, war it." "And that it was eleven o'clock when you witnessed the meeting between the man and the woman at Castle Lone!" "Ay, war it.

And I had to run a' the way to do it in that time.

It waur guid rinning." "You left his lordship's valet with him, do you say ?" "Ay, I did.