"The man arrived safely, yesterday morning, after having, with great difficulty, made his way unobserved through the Bairds, who had some fifty or sixty men scattered, all over the hills." "Do you go to them, Wife, and tell them that their father has arrived.
"They have been terribly upset," John went on, as his wife left the room.

"They were only told of the loss of their mother after they arrived, yesterday.

Oswald thought that they would need all their strength for the journey, and that it were better that Mary should break the news to them, when they got here.

We have all felt for you sorely, Adam, since your messenger brought the news." Armstrong pressed his hand, silently.
"She was a good wife to me, John, a right good wife.

We buried what seemed to be her remains, yesterday morning.