“No doubt he already knows it.”
“No, I should have heard it a thousand times, if he knew it.”
“Well, then, I believe it has been suppressed. Many think it too ill-natured for Burns to have written; but my father says it has the true Burns ring and is Robert Burns’ writing without doubt.”
“It will give grandfather a nice long job of investigation. That is one of his favourite amusements, and all Sunna has to do is to be sure he is right and everybody else wrong. Now I will go home.”
“Stay with me today.”
“No. Macrae will be here soon.”
“Uncertain is that.”
“Every hair on thy head, Thora, every article of thy dress, from the lace at thy throat to the sandals on thy feet, say to me that this is a time when my absence will be better than my company.”
“Well, then, do as thou art minded.”