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"A man's marriage," he answered, "is his own affair, I would have brooked no interference from my congregation." I thought, "There is some obstinacy left in him still;" but aloud I said, "It was of your mother I was thinking." "She would have taken Babbie to her heart," he said, with the fond conviction of a lover. I doubted it, but I only asked, "Your mother knows nothing of her?"
"Dinna say that," said Nanny, anxiously, "or I'll be fleid about the siller." "Don't fear about it. Mr. Dishart will get some of it to-morrow at the Kaims. I would bring it here, but I cannot come so far to- morrow." "Then I'll hae peace to the end o' my days," said the old woman, "and, Babbie, I wish the same to you wi' all my heart."
"Well, we may as well have as much fun as we can out of it," said Babbie philosophically. "I've written home for a spread; so we shan't die of hunger." "Mrs. Kent says she's going to give us the best Thanksgiving dinner we ever ate," announced Betty cheerfully. "I hope our matron will be seized with the same lofty ambition," said Katherine.
"Lord Rintoul!" exclaimed Margaret. "What a pity Gavin has missed him. Of course she can stay here. Did you say I bad gone to bed? I should not know What to say to a lord. But ask her to come up to me after he has gone and, Jean, is the parlor looking tidy?" Lord Rintoul having departed, Jean told Babbie how she had accounted to Margaret for his visit.
"I'm a gey auld-farrant-looking dear, I doubt," said Nanny, ruefully. "Now, Nanny," rejoined Babbie, "you are just wanting me to flatter you. You know the merino looks very nice." "It's a guid merino yet," admitted the old woman, "but, oh, Babbie, what does the material matter if the cut isna fashionable? It's fine, isn't it, to be in the fashion?"
Then becoming aware that the two strange gentlemen standing by the fire were really and truly "officer ones," she looked wide-eyed up at them and uttered an involuntary "Oh!" "Babbie," said Jed, "let me see that boat of yours a minute, will you?" Babbie obediently handed it over. Jed inspected it through his spectacles.
"But, no," he said moving on again, "I will not be a skulker from any man. If it be God's wish that I should suffer for this, I must suffer." "Oh, why," cried Babbie, beating her hands together in grief, "should you suffer for me?" "You are mine," Gavin answered. Babbie gasped. "And if you act foolishly," he continued, "it is right that I should bear the brunt of it.
"Or if he found it in his possession against his will?" suggested Gavin, slyly. "He might have got it from some one who picked it up cheap." "From his wife, for instance," said Babbie, whereupon Gavin suddenly became interested in the floor. "Ay, ay, the minister was hitting at you there, Babbie," Nanny explained, "for the way you made off wi' the captain's cloak.
I haven't any class until eleven, so we can eat in peace." "Then I'll take lunch on Tuesday," put in Katherine hastily, "because I am as poor as poverty at present, and a one o'clock luncheon preceded by a breakfast ending at eleven appeals to my lean pocketbook." "I should like to take her driving that afternoon," put in Babbie.
"I suppose," said Babbie, "that it's because nothing is competitive here. You just take what people think you ought to have. You stand or fall by public opinion, and of course you are never sure how it will gauge you." "College men aren't that way," said Katherine. "They talk about such things, and discuss their chances and agree to help one another along where they can.
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