When Ailie was put to bed and Rab was permitted to enter the room he “slunk in,” half-ashamed, but fully determined.
Page 107: Rab valued himself highly, but felt no conceit: he “had the dignity and simplicity of great size,” and the “gravity of all great fighters.”
Page 109: Rab felt perplexity and anger, “forever cocking his ear and dropping it as fast,” when Ailie entered the operating room.
During the operation he felt sympathy for the suffering of his mistress, anger and revengefulness at her tormentors; “his ragged ear was up, and importunate; he growled and gave now and then a sharp, impatient yelp; he would have liked to have done something to that man.”
Afterward in Ailie’s room he felt fear, anxiety and a desire to help, and showed “how meek and gentle he could be, occasionally, in his sleep, letting us know he was demolishing some adversary.”
Page 110: Rab continued to feel a sense of depression, sadness and anxiety; during his walks with the medical student he was “sombre and mild; declined doing battle—submitted to sundry indignities.”
While Ailie seemed to be recovering Rab felt kindliness and subdued joy, though resentment lay close beneath the surface; he was “reconciled, and even cordial,” had “made up his mind that as yet nobody required worrying,” but was always prepared for it.
Page 111: As Ailie grew worse, grief and fear began to take possession of Rab; he “subsided under the table into a dark place, and was motionless.”
Page 112: When Ailie called in delirium, her strained voice filled Rab with surprise, astonishment and a sense of guilt; he started up “surprised, and slinking off as if he were to blame somehow, or had been dreaming he heard.”
Page 114: At Ailie’s death Rab was overwhelmed with grief; he licked her hand which was hanging down “all over carefully, looked at her, and returned to his place under the table.”