I have been hearing all about yours at Thrieve from the Lady Sybilla.

I wish you had asked me.

But now we shall be friends, and I will come and stay long months with you all together--that is, if my mother will let me." All this the young King shouted as he ranged alongside of the two brothers, and rode with them towards the city.
King James II.

of Scotland was at this time an open-hearted boy, with no evident mark of the treachery and jealous fury which afterwards distinguished him as a man.

The schooling of Livingston, his tutor, had not yet perverted his mind (as it did too soon afterwards), and he welcomed the young Douglases as the embodiment of all that was great and knightly, noble and gallant, in his kingdom.
"Yesterday," he began, as soon as he had subdued the ardour of his frolicsome little steed to a steadier gait, varied only by an occasional curvet, "yesterday I was made to read in the Chronicles of the Kings of Scotland, and lo, it was the Douglas did this and the Douglas said that, till I cried out upon Master Kennedy, 'Enough of Douglases--I am a Stewart.