"Christina has not obeyed my commands very particularly of late. They do not seem important to her."
"She has had so much to do, and she knew Sir Thomas would not be in Glasgow to-night. If I knew she was well and safe, I should be glad she was not here, for this is an unhappy house with Robert in the devil's own temper, and Dora looking like the grave."
"Dora makes Robert ill-tempered. It is all her fault, and we have to suffer for it."
"She evidently suffers also."
"She deserves to suffer."
"Suppose we send for Scot. He must be in the stable yet."
"As you like."
In a quarter of an hour Scot stood within the dining-room door respectfully indignant at the summons and the delay it would cause him. He was rather glad the ladies were anxious and quite in the mood to tell anything he thought might be disagreeable.
"Where did you take Miss Christina first of all this morning, Scot?" asked Mrs. Campbell.
"To the florist's shop on Buchanan Street. She bought a posy of daffy-down-dillys and came out with them in her hand."