What does the bairn want ?" "What do ye want, Annie ?" "I want to see Thomas, gin ye please," answered Annie.
"She wants to see you, Thomas," screamed Jean; remarking in a lower voice, "He's as deef's a door-nail, Annie Anderson." "Lat her come in, than," bawled Thomas.
"He's tellin' ye to come in, Annie," said Jean, as if she had been interpreting his words.

But she detained her nevertheless to ask several unimportant questions.

At length the voice of Thomas rousing her once more, she hastened to introduce her.
"Gang in there, Annie," she said, throwing open the door of the dark room.

The child entered and stood just within it, not knowing even where Thomas sat.

But a voice came to her out of the gloom: "Ye're no feared at the dark, are ye, Annie?
Come in." "I dinna ken whaur I'm gaein." "Never min' that.