<p>"Aye," said Mistress Crombie, house-keeper to Roger McGhie, Laird of Balmaghie, a considerable house in the south-lying and better-cultivated part of the wild lands of Galloway?"aye, indeed, ye may well say it, Alisoun Begbie. It is a wondrous and most ungentle thing when the doe seeks the hart?panting and brayin' for a man, as the Guid Buik says. And saw ye ever sic feathers??I declare they nearly soopit the floor. My Lady Wellwood, or n...