"Is it because I have annoyed you, that you perhaps think I am not keeping faith with you?
I know I was absent a long time, but it was really not my own fault.

My people made me go round the world.

I didn't want to, I assure you.

I'd far rather have been up here at Connachan all the time, and near you, my own well-beloved." "I believe you would, Walter," she answered, turning towards him with her hand upon his shoulder.

"But I do wish you wouldn't reproach me for my undemonstrativeness each time we meet.