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This made the author less terribly aloof, less altogether impossible to question if she should have the happiness of obtaining an interview. She put her request at last very timidly to her new friend. "Do you think he would give me an interview just a very, very short one?" But now Kate Kinross was perturbed. He has stood out against it so persistently all these five years.
The same evening, the queen in her impatience, and rather to assure herself of her partisans' vigilance than in the hope that the time of her deliverance was so near, brought her lamp to the window: immediately, and as George Douglas had told her, the light in the little house at Kinross disappeared: the queen then laid her hand on her heart and counted up to twenty-two; then the light reappeared; they were ready for everything, but nothing was yet settled.
Mary Seyton smiled, nodding that she adopted her mistress's superstition; then the queen, incapable of remaining idle in her great preoccupation of mind, collected the few jewels that she had preserved, enclosed them in a casket, got ready for the evening a black dress, in order to be still better hidden in the darkness: and, these preparations made, she sat down again at the window, ceaselessly carrying her eyes from the lake to the little house in Kinross, shut up and dumb as usual.
"Oh, he'll never wreck her through rashness, rest assured of that; but he's timid to childishness, and timid skippers lose just as many vessels as rash ones. Some day, Kinross will lose the Martha because there'll be only one chance and he'll be afraid to take it. I know his sort.
Many a meanness of life is left uncommitted, not solely because it is a meanness but because it would look execrable in the pages of a novel. Why, only for being terrorized by the Old Maid of Fiction, I'd be keeping a cat and a parrot myself by this time, Hugh Kinross, and you know it." "And what should I be doing?" asked Hugh, amused. Kate cogitated for a moment.
When Miss Kinross came in she was at Herbert Spencer's Education, thinking that surely so wise and practical an observer of youth as he must have offered some recipe for such a situation as had just passed. But Spencer held out no helping hand. The lines on her forehead deepened. "Are you all well?" said Miss Kinross, coming forward to shake hands with her. "How do you do, little girls?
Thou wilt take the skiff, Roland, and two of my people, whom Dryfesdale or Randal will order out, and fetch off certain stuff of plate and hangings, which should last night be lodged at Kinross by the wains from Edinburgh." "And give this packet," said George Douglas, "to a servant of ours, whom you will find in waiting there.
"It is a solemn assurance of safety in life and limb," said Queen Mary, "with space to come and go, under the hand and seal of the Chamberlain of Kinross, granted to Magdalen Graeme, commonly called Mother Nicneven, in consideration of her consenting to put herself, for the space of twenty-four hours, if required, within the iron gate of the Castle of Lochleven."
Kinross will be greatly obliged if she will see him for five minutes?" "I really couldn't," said Lynn distressedly. "I'm very sorry, but I'm sure she wouldn't like me to." "Very well," said Hugh, "I shall simply go and find her myself," and he pushed up the French window and stepped out into the garden.
"Everything is already provided for on that side: the light which shines each night in the little house in Kinross incessantly tells you that your friends keep watch for you; but when you would like to know if the hour of your deliverance approaches or recedes, in your turn place a light in this window.
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