"Oh!" said Sunnie, with big eyes. "What a cruel man!"
"I must be free!" said Jean earnestly. "I would rather be a beggar in the streets than confined in a palace."
"I must add a sequel to Sunnie's story," said Dr. Fergusson. "When the exiles came back, Margaret's husband carved these lines over the front door in Latin—"
"'Loyal and true in trial was she,
Margaret saved this house and me.'"
"And are they there now?" asked Jean, with interest.
"Yes; I will show them to you if you like."
"I am glad he knew her worth."
Dr. Fergusson looked at her with a twinkle in his eye.
"Yet you think he had the hardest part to play, and certainly it was a part that brought him no renown."
"I have no patience with him," Jean said shortly.