"Perhaps it may all seem childish and unimportant to you.

But you have always been perfect.

You were the one perfect being.

I have never doubted you--" "Do you doubt me now ?" "Perhaps no one but myself could realise that a sort of sore spot--yes, a sore spot--was left in my mind for years because of a wretched thing which happened when I was a child.

_Did_ you deliberately take me back to Scotland so suddenly that early morning?
Was it a thing which could have been helped ?" "I thought not, Donal.