He would come very soon,--as soon as Johnstone had come back from his fishing.

She was not to fret herself.

Of course he could not always be at Ardkill.

He too had things to trouble him.

Then he told her he had received letters from home which caused him very much trouble; and there was a something of sharpness in his words, which brought from her a string of lamentations in which, however, the tears and wailings did not as yet take the form of reproaches.