He had set himself to win her to love him.

But so great was his passion that now he thought: "Surely not one, but two as one, make this terrible and happy furnace!" He thought, "I will speak now," and then delayed over the words.
"This is a bonny, wee place!" said Elspeth.

"Did you never hear the old folks tell that your great-grandmother, that was among the persecuted, loved it?
When your father was a laddie they often used to sit here, the two of them.

They were great wanderers together." "I never heard it," said Alexander.

"Almost it seems too bright...." They sat in silence, but the train of thought started went on with Glenfernie: "But perhaps she never went so far as the Kelpie's Pool." "The Kelpie's Pool!...