[Scottish sketches by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr]@TWC D-Link bookScottish sketches CHAPTER VI 8/14
I know now you will never use it against him.
What if your six hours were lengthened out through life--through eternity? I ask no promise from you now, dear." "But I give it.
Before God I give it, with all my heart.
My sin has found me out this night.
How has God borne with me all these years? Oh, how great is his mercy!" Then Christine told him how he had revealed his wicked plot, and how wonderful strength had been given her to defeat it; and the two souls, amid their parting sighs and tears, knew each other as they had never done through all their years of life. For a week James remained in his own room.
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