They are overhead.

There are wild young fellows among the Bairds, and the girls are good looking; therefore he thought it best to place them in my charge, and that is why you see two sentries marching on the battlements, one on each side of this turret.

He himself keeps the key of their chamber, handing it over to me every morning, and receiving it again at night--a precaution wholly unnecessary, methinks." "Surely, surely," Roger said.

"I wonder that you are not offended." "I told him that it was strange he could not trust me, a priest, with the charge of them; but he laughed and said, 'As a priest you are well enough, Father Kenelm, but remember also that you are a Baird.

Though a priest, I would trust you to ride with me on a foray across the border; but as a Baird, I would not entrust you with the custody of women.