Did you hear it, Grizel ?" She understood, and nodded.
"And you, Elspeth ?" "Yes." "My bairn!" cried the astounded Corp.
"Yours," said Tommy, reproachfully; "and he has done for us.

Ladies and gentlemen, the game is up." Yes, the game was up, and she was glad, Grizel said to herself, as they made their melancholy pilgrimage of what had once been an enchanted land.

But she felt that Tommy had been very forbearing to her, and that she did not deserve it.

Undoubtedly he had ordered her about, but in so doing had he not been making half-pathetic sport of his old self--and was it with him that she was annoyed for ordering, or with herself for obeying?
And why should she not obey, when it was all a jest?
It was as if she still had some lingering fear of Tommy.
Oh, she was ashamed of herself.

She must say something nice to him at once.