But only heard her breath’s quick souch,
For fient a word could I get frae her.
I howp’t she didna think me rude—
Civility I weel intendit;
An’, quit I naither wad nor could,
But pardon—gin I had offendit.
I ventur’t yince to speir her name—
I offen askit where she cam’ frae—
(That hoosie boodna’ be her hame)
An’ thochte I heard ae word like Wamphray.