“And has he never spoken again?”
“Never to me. I do not think he would willingly do me an ill turn, but he might harm me when he might think he was helping me into the right way. Oh! I would like to go away from this place, and it would be happiness as well as safety to go with you and my Marjorie.”
Mrs Esselmont sat thinking in silence for what seemed to Allison a long time. Then she raised herself up and held out her hand.
“Allison, I understand well that there are some things that will not bear to be spoken about. Tell me nothing now, but come with me. I trust you. Come with me and the child.”
The tears came into Allison’s eyes, and she said quietly:
“I thank you, madam. I will serve you well.”
Chapter Eighteen.
“God be with thee,
Else alone thou goest forth,
Thy face unto the north.”