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Updated: June 10, 2025
She could even think hopefully of Liz, and her mind was full of schemes for her redemption, when she espied, at a short distance from her own gates, the solitary figure of Teen, with her hand shading her eyes, looking anxiously down the road. She had found life at Bourhill insufferably dull without its mistress.
And so they found it at six o'clock in the morning, just when Liz was stepping into the first train at a wayside station many miles from Bourhill. 'I think we had better go down and see what Gladys is about, said Mrs. Fordyce at the breakfast-table. 'Could you go down with me this afternoon, Tom? 'I daresay I could, replied the lawyer.
I have asked them down, and of course I can't retract my invitations; they may have gone down to Miss Peck already, for aught I know. Promise to come down to Bourhill and see poor Lizzie, then I am sure you will say I have done quite right. A cold sweat broke over George Fordyce, and he was fain to take several turns between the window and the door to recover himself.
All the same, she added, with a faint sigh, 'I admit that he was right to find fault with her having those girls at Bourhill. Tom dear, I really think it is your duty, as guardian, to interfere. 'We can go down, anyhow, and see what she is about, replied the lawyer; and that afternoon, accordingly, they went out to Mauchline.
One day a letter came which changed the current of life at Bourhill. How often is such an unpretending missive, borne by the postman's careless hand, fraught with stupendous issues? It came in a plain, square envelope, bearing the Glasgow post-mark, and the words 'Royal Infirmary' on the flap.
'I shall come one more time here only, Gladys said, 'to take papa away. Mr. Fordyce promised to arrange it for me. He must sleep with his own people; and when he is in the old churchyard I shall feel at home in Bourhill.
A number of them were known to her; there had been many pleasant gatherings at Troon in the summer, and, as was natural, Miss Graham of Bourhill, with her interesting personality and her romantic history, had received a great deal of attention from the Fordyces' large circle of friends.
Her former elation over their trip to Bourhill gave place to a painful anxiety lest it should hasten events to a crisis in which the happiness of Gladys might be sadly involved; but it was now too late to help matters, and, with a bit of philosophical calmness, she said within herself, 'What is to be maun be, and went on with her preparations for the morrow's journey.
'Yes, you have; but your position is entirely altered now. It would not be proper for you to live in this great house alone, with no company but that of servants. Mr. Fordyce would but poorly fulfil his promise to your poor uncle if he entertained such an idea for a moment. If you are to live at Bourhill at all, you must have a responsible person to live with you. But we had other plans for you.
'This is Bourhill, my girl; and whatever ambitions your father may have had in later years, it was once his one desire to buy it back to the Grahams. Do you like the place? 'Yes, uncle; but it is very desolate it makes me sad. 'It will not be long so, he said; and, drawing himself together with a quick shiver, he bade the driver turn the horses' heads.
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