The marriage between the two was acknowledged to the world in 1787.—Editor.
CHAPTER XIX
THE QUARREL BETWEEN DANVERS AND NANCY
We were back at Stair for nearly a fortnight, with Nancy quite herself again, before she took me into her confidence regarding the Burns experience. Leaning against the wall by the stair-foot with her hands behind her, a way she'd had ever since she was a wee bit, the talk began, with no leading up to it on either side.
"Jock," she said, suddenly, and a quaint look came over her face, "I've never told you what made me ill at Mauchline."
"I've been waiting," I answered.
"It was a bad time for me," she continued.
"I know that, Lady-bird," said I.
"Part of me died," she said, and on this a thought flashed by me which, I have often held, that in some way her language expressed more than she knew.