'
'I am very glad they should be together. While I know that, I feel
that we are not altogether separated. I will never give it up, Mrs
Finn,--never, never. It is not use taking me to China.' In that
Mrs Finn quite agreed with her.
CHAPTER 42
Again at Killancodlem
Silverbridge remained at Crummie-Toddie under the dominion of
Reginald Dobbes till the second week of September. Popplecourt,
Nidderdale and Gerald Palliser were there also, very obedient and
upon the whole efficient. Tregear was intractable, occasional, and
untrustworthy. He was the cause of much trouble to Mr Dobbes. He
would entertain a most heterodox and injurious idea that he had
come to Crummie-Toddie for amusement, and he was not bound to do
anything that did not amuse him. He would not understand that in
sport as in other matters there was an ambition, driving man on to
excel always and be ahead of others. In spite of this Mr Dobbes
had cause for much triumph. It was going to be the greatest thing
ever done by six guns in Scotland. As for Gerald, whom he had
regarded as a boy; and who had offended him by saying that
Crummie-Toddie was ugly,--he was ready to go round the world for
him.
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