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I whiles taks a ride in a carriage. ... It was a sorry sicht, I can tell ye, to see a dacent lass ruined wi' siller.... Weel, Miss Jean 'll get a man noo. Nae fear o' that," and Miss Bathgate repeated her cynical lines about the lass "on Tintock tap." Mrs. Hope was much excited when she heard, more especially when she found who Jean's benefactor was.
"Don't you remember poor dear Captain Brown's song 'Tibbie Fowler, and the line 'Set her on the Tintock tap, The wind will blaw a man till her." "That was because 'Tibbie Fowler' was rich, I think." "Well! there was a kind of attraction about Lady Glenmire that I, for one, should be ashamed to have." I put in my wonder. "But how can she have fancied Mr Hoggins?
Mawson's expression grew softly sentimental as she added, "Many a one marries for love, like the King and the beggar-maid." "Mebbe," said Bella, "but the auld rhyme's oftener true: "'Be a lassie ne'er sae black, Gie her but the name o' siller, Set her up on Tintock tap An' the wind'll blaw a man till her.
A calm, pure summer moonlight fell upon the Ayrshire mosses and deans, but did not silver, as far as we are concerned, the Carrick Castle of Bruce, nor Cameron's lair amidst the heather, nor landward Tintock, nor even seagirt Ailsa Craig, but only the rolling waves of the Atlantic and a grey turreted mansion-house built on a promontory running abruptly into the water.
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