How else could it have been?
The dove may not nest with the carrion bird." "Say no more, sir," cried Kenneth, genuinely moved, and still more amazed by this curious humility in one whom he had never known other than arrogant and mocking.

"I beseech you, say no more.

For what trifling wrongs you may have done me I forgive you as freely as I would be forgiven.

Is it not written that it shall be so ?" And he held out his hand.
"A little more I must say, Kenneth," answered the other, leaving the outstretched hand unheeded.

"The feeling that was born in me towards you at Perth Castle is on me again.