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"An'it please your lairdship, there are twa poleecemen downstairs, wi' a posse at their tails," answered the old man, bowing humbly. "What is their business here?" "I dinna ken, me laird." "Something about that stupid murder, I suppose." Faustina started; she was probably thinking of Katie. "I dinna think it is onything connected wi' Ailsie's death, me laird." "What then?
Mr Winstanley, who is uncommon sure o' the strength of his work, he replies, says he `I only wish to be there in the greatest storm that ever blew under the face of heaven, to see what the effect will be. Them's his very words, an'it did seem to me an awful wish all the more that the sky looked at the time very like as if dirty weather was brewin' up somewhere."
"I saw you walk kinder crooked, that was all, an'it came to me that you might be needin' an arm toward home. Young gentlemen will be gentlemen, that's the truth, suh, an' in my day I reckon I've steadied the legs of mo' young beaux than you could count on your ten fingers. Good Lord, when it comes to thinkin' of those Christmas Eve frolics that we had befo' the war!
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