He said, at dinner, before the landlady and the waiter, 'I take these rooms for my wife.' He made _her_ say he was her husband at the same time.

After that he stopped all night.

What do the lawyers call this in Scotland ?--( Query: a marriage ?)" After folding up the paper he hesitated for a moment.

"No!" he thought, "It won't do to trust to what Miss Lundie said about it.

I can't be certain till I have consulted Sir Patrick himself." He put the paper away in his pocket, and wiped the heavy perspiration from his forehead.