She says, 'Let him alone! Do you not know that his own weird will bring him into dark countries and light countries, and where he is to go?
Is your own tree to be made thwart and misshapen, that his may be reminded that there is rightness of growth?
He is a tree--he is not a stone, nor will he become a stone.
There is a law a little larger than your fretfulness that will take care of him! I like Glenfernie better when he is not a busybody!'" Alexander stared at her in anger.

"Differences where I thought to find likeness--likenesses where I thought to find differences! He deceived me, fooled me, played upon me as upon a pipe; took my own--" "Ha!" said Gilian.

"So you are going a-hunting for more reasons than one ?--Elspeth, Elspeth! come out of it!--for Glenfernie, after all, avenges himself!" Alexander, looking like his father, spoke slowly, with laboring breath.

"Had one asked me, I should have said that you above all might understand.

But you, too, betray!" With a sweep of his arms abroad, a gesture abrupt and desolate, he turned.