I have other work to do.

Friend," added he, "is this all a dream?
Is this indeed the castle of my fathers?
and when Sorley Boy comes, shall it be I who will give it into his hands ?" "You and no other," said I, "for the place is yours." "Alas!" he said, "at what cost! When I heard my brave men fall from the cliff like sheep, Humphrey, I was minded not to stay there myself.

But adieu now.

To the maiden! Keep her safe for me." He waved his hand and stalked to the gate, where I watched him, erect, amid his cheering clansmen, with a joyous smile on his face such as I had rarely seen there before, and which I knew belonged in part to the noble chieftain, his father, and in part to his true love, the maiden.
Alas! 'twas many a long day before I was to see him smile again like that, as you shall hear.
For the present, I went light at heart to the maiden, whom I found pale, indeed (for she had been ill), but serene and happy.

The old nurse, who, I thought, ill liked my intrusion, forbade me to weary her young mistress with talk or questions.
"A plague on every man of you," growled the old woman.