Grizel's blinds were already up.

"Do you mind," Corp said, "how often, when we had boasted we were to start at four and didna get roaded till six, we wriggled by that window so that Grizel shouldna see us ?" "She usually did see us," Tommy replied ruefully.

"Grizel always spotted us, Corp, when we had anything to hide, and missed us when we were anxious to be seen." "There was no jouking her," said Corp.

"Do you mind how that used to bother you ?" a senseless remark to a man whom it was bothering still--or shall we say to a boy?
For the boy came back to Tommy when he heard the Drumly singing; it was as if he had suddenly seen his mother looking young again.

There had been a thunder-shower as they drew near, followed by a rush of wind that pinned them to a dike, swept the road bare, banged every door in the glen, and then sank suddenly as if it had never been, like a mole in the sand.