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"I wish I saw you wi' bairns o' your ain, Grizel," he said, looking on entranced; but she gave him such a pitiful smile that he could not get it out of his head. Deprived of Gavinia's counsel, and afraid to hurt Elspeth, he sought out the doctor and said bluntly to him, "How is it he never writes to Grizel? She misses him terrible."
"I hankered after putting something out o' the Jacobites intil his name; and I says to Gavinia, 'Let's call him Thomas Sandys Stroke Shiach, says I, 'and the minister'll be nane the wiser'; but Gavinia was scandalized." Grizel reflected. "Corp," she said, "I am sure Gavinia's sister will expect to be asked to carry the baby. I don't think I want to do it."
Tommy shook his head, like one who would fain hope so, but could not overlook facts. "I've been hearing," he said, "that she reads books as are full o' Strokes and Words We have no Concern with." Miss Ailie could not believe it, but she was advised to search the kitchen, and under Gavinia's mattress was found the dreadful work.
The Dundas lassies saw her frae their window, and her hands were at her ears as if she was trying to drown the sound o' something. Do you mind o' her mother? They say she was looking terrible like her mother. It was only between the station and Gavinia's house that she had been seen, but they searched far afield. Tommy, accompanied by Corp, even sought for her in the Den.
It had been among the prince's exploits to make his way into Thrums in disguise, and mix with the people as one of themselves, and on several of these occasions he had seen Miss Ailie's attendant. Agnes's resemblance to her now struck him for the first time. It should be Agnes of Kingoldrum's honorable though dangerous part to take this Gavinia's place.
But in the middle o' my dream it comes ower me that I had better waken up to see what Gavinia's doing, and I open my een, and there she is, sitting up, hearkening avidly to my every word, and putting sly questions to me about the glove." "What glove?" Tommy asked coldly. "The glove in silk paper." "I never heard of it," said Tommy. Corp sighed.
She knew that, with whatever repugnance she drove those passions away, they would come back yes, and for a space be welcomed back. Why does she leave Gavinia's blue hearth this evening, and seek the solitary Den? She has gone to summon them, and she knows it. They come thick in the Den, for they know the place. It was there that her mother was wont to walk with them.
'You know that is not what I really mean, she said, and then I said, 'I don't think he is so much changed that it is impossible to recognize him again." Tommy interrupted her: "Now what did you mean by that?" "I meant that I thought you were a little annoyed to find the congregation looking at Gavinia's baby more than at you!" "Grizel, you are a wretch, but perhaps you were right.
He was going to say certain things to her; and he said them to himself again and again in the train, and heard her answer. The words might vary, but they were always to the same effect. "Grizel, I have come back!" He saw himself say these words, as he opened her door in Gavinia's little house. And when he had said them he bowed his head.
On another occasion she broke a glass candlestick, and all she said to the pieces was, "Wha carries me, wears me." This mystery was troubling the school-mistress sadly when Tommy arrived with the key to it. "I'm doubting Gavinia's reading ill books on the sly," he said. "Never!" exclaimed Miss Ailie, "she reads nothing but the Mentor."
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