Amen."' Half ashamed of his long speech, half overcome by the feelings fighting within him, and altogether bewildered, Robert burst out crying like a baby, and ran out of the room--up to his own place of meditation, where he threw himself on the floor.

Shargar, who had made neither head nor tail of it all, as he said afterwards, sat staring at Mrs.Falconer.

She rose, and going into Robert's little bedroom, closed the door, and what she did there is not far to seek.
When she came out, she rang the bell for tea, and sent Shargar to look for Robert.

When he appeared, she was so gentle to him that it woke quite a new sensation in him.

But after tea was over, she said: 'Noo, Robert, lat's hae nae mair o' this.