Whereupon the General said, "My daughter, Miss Carnegie," and they became so friendly before they reached Kildrummie that Carmichael forgot his disgraceful appearance and when the General offered him a lift up, simply clutched at the opportunity.
The trap was a four-wheeled dog-cart.

Kate drove, with her father by her side and Carmichael behind, but he found it necessary to turn round to give information of names and places, and he so managed that he could catch Kate's profile half the time.
When he got down at the foot of the hill by Hillocks' farm, to go up the near road, instead thereof he scrambled along the ridge, and looked through the trees as the carriage passed below; but he did not escape.
"What's he glowerin' at doon there ?" Hillocks inquired of Jamie Soutar, to whom he was giving some directions about a dyke, and Hillocks made a reconnaissance.

"A 'll warrant that's the General and his dochter.
She 's a weel-faured lassie an' speerity-lookin'." "It cowes a'," said Jamie to himself; "the first day he ever saw her; but it's aye the way, aince an' ever, or.

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