Ye wadna greit that gait gin ye war innocent.

I never missed onything afore.

And ye ken weel eneuch there's an ee that sees a' thing, and ye canna hide frae hit." Bruce could hardly have intended that it was by inspiration from on high that he had discovered the thief of his sweets.

But he thought it better to avoid mentioning that the informer was his own son Johnnie.
Johnnie, on his part, had thought it better not to mention that he had been incited to the act by his brother Robert.

And Robert had thought it better not to mention that he did so partly to shield himself, and partly out of revenge for the box on the ear which Alec Forbes had given him.