"If you don't know——"
"Is it Elspeth?"
The question came out of him like a confession, and hope turned Grizel giddy.
"Do you love her, David?" she cried.
But he hesitated. "Is what you have told me true, that it would help you?" he asked, looking her full in the eyes.
"Do you love her?" she implored, but he was determined to have her answer first.
"Is it, Grizel?"
"Yes, yes. Do you, David?"
And then he admitted that he did, and she rocked her arms in joy.
"But oh, David, to say such things to me when you were not a free man! How badly you have treated Elspeth to-day!"