"Ye shall e'en hae the hundred pounds, for you'll be needin' it for the puir wife.

Puir lassie--dinna think I'm not sorry for you and her, as well." Jamie shook his head and went off.

He could no trust himself to speak again.

And he went back to Annie wi' tears in his een, and the heart within him heavy as it were lead.

Still, when he reached hame, and saw Annie looking at him wi' such grief in her moist een, he could no bear to tell her of the hundred pounds.