Kilmeny of the Orchard 
     
    
   
   
    
     that came on her Margaret was a Winsome 
     
     lass, singing like a lark from morning till 
     
     night. Maybe we spoiled her a little — 
     
     maybe we gave her too much of her own 
     
     way. 
     
    

    
     “ Well, Master, you have heard the 
     
     story of her marriage to Ronald Fraser 
     
     and what came after, so I need not go into 
     
     that. I know, or used to know Elizabeth 
     
     Williamson well, and I know that what- 
     
     ever she told you would be the truth and 
     
     nothing more or less than the truth. 
     
    

    
     “ Our father was a very proud man. 
     
     Oh, Master, if Margaret was too proud 
     
     she got it from no stranger. And her mis- 
     
     fortune cut him to the heart. He never 
     
     spoke a word to us here for more than 
     
     three days after he heard of it. He sat in 
     
     the corner there with bowed head and 
     
     would not touch bite or sup. He had not 
     
     been very willing for her to marry Ronald 
     
     Fraser; and when she came home in dis- 
     
     grace she had not set foot over the threshm 
     
     old before he broke out railing at her. Oh, 
     
    
   
   
    
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