"Herself!"
"Hech, that's awfu'l"
"So I wished to give you a hint to treat her with the consideration due to her rank."
"Eh, sirs! but that's awfu'!" repeated the dame, unable to overget her astonishment.
"She has money enough to pay for all that she requires and to reward those who are kind to her besides," continued Mrs. MacDonald.
"Nae doobt! nae doobt! bags o' gowd and siller! bags o' gowd and siller! What a puir, auld, doitted, fule bodie I was, to be sure," said the dame, in a tone of regret.
"Now, I want to know whether she cannot have a few comforts in her cell, if she is able and willing to pay for them, and to reward her attendants for bringing them?"
"And what for no? The bonny leddy sail hae a' that she craves, whilk is consistent wi' her safe-keeping."
"And certainly her friends would ask no more."
"What would her leddyship like to begin wi'?"