None, they were aware, would receive the news with quite such glee as she.
They might think her cold and reserved with themselves, but to see the look on her face as she bent over a baby, and to know that the baby was yours! What a way she had with them! She always welcomed them as if in coming they had performed a great feat.

That is what babies are agape for from the beginning.

Had they been able to speak they would have said "Tell Grizel" themselves.
"And Mrs.Shiach's compliments," Corp remembered, "and she would be windy if you would carry the bairn at the christening." "I should love it, Corp! Have you decided on the name ?" "Lang syne.

Gin it were a lassie we were to call her Grizel--" "Oh, how sweet of you!" "After the finest lassie we ever kent," continued Corp, stoutly.

"But I was sure it would be a laddie." "Why ?" "Because if it was a laddie it was to be called after Him," he said, with emphasis on the last word; "and thinks I to mysel', 'He'll find a way.' What a crittur he was for finding a way, Grizel! And he lookit so holy a' the time.