“Only one woman for Andrew Binnie.”
“To be sure, if you choose to limit yourself in that way. I think better of you. And as for dying for a woman, I don’t believe in it.”
“Poor Matt Ballantyne broke his heart about Jessie Graham.”
“It was a very poor heart then. Nothing mends so soon as a good heart. It trusts in the Omnipotent, and gets strength for its need, and then begins to look around for good it can do, or make for others, or take to itself. If Matt broke his heart for Jessie, Jessie would have been poorly cared for by such a weak kind of a heart. She is better off with Neil McAllister, no doubt.”
“You have done me good, Christina. I have not heard so many sound observes in a long time.”
And with that Janet came to the cliff-top and called to them to hurry. “Step out!” she cried, “here is Jamie Logan with a pocket full of great news; and the fish is frying itself black, while you two are daundering, as if it was your very business and duty to keep hungry folk waiting their dinner for you.”
CHAPTER IV. — THE LAST OF THE WHIP
With a joyful haste Christina went forward, leaving her brother to follow in more sober fashion. Jamie came to the cliff-top to meet her, and Janet from the cottage door beamed congratulations and radiant sympathy.