I do not care! I am glad that the sun shines through me." "You must be happy in your love! Who is she ?" "Elspeth Barrow, the granddaughter of Jarvis Barrow of White Farm....
You say that I must be happy in my love.

The Lord of Heaven knows that I am! and yet she is not yet sure that she loves me in her turn.

One might say that I had great uncertainty of bliss.

But I love so strongly that I have no strength of disbelief in me!" "Elspeth Barrow!" "My old friend--the unworldliest, the better-worldliest soul I know--do not you join in that hue and cry about world's gear and position! To be Barrow is as good as to be Jardine.

Elspeth is Elspeth." "Oh, I know why I made exclamation! Just the old, dull earthy surprise! Wait for me a moment, Alexander." She put her hands before her eyes, then, dropping them, sat with her gaze upon the great tree shot through with light from the clearing sky.