I had not told my sister, of course, what was toward; for why should I make her anxious?
When it grew towards dark, I was just beginning to prepare for my circuit around the hills; but suddenly Watch gave a long low growl; I kept myself close as possible, and ordered the dog to be silent, and presently saw a short figure approaching from a thickly-wooded hollow on the left side of my hiding-place.

It was the same figure I had seen once before in the moonlight, at Plover's Barrows; and proved, to my great delight, to be the little maid Gwenny Carfax.

She started a moment, at seeing me, but more with surprise than fear; and then she laid both her hands upon mine, as if she had known me for twenty years.
'Young man,' she said, 'you must come with me.

I was gwain' all the way to fetch thee.

Old man be dying; and her can't die, or at least her won't, without first considering thee.' 'Considering me!' I cried; 'what can Sir Ensor Doone want with considering me?
Has Mistress Lorna told him ?' 'All concerning thee, and thy doings; when she knowed old man were so near his end.