nun.

So effectually did she bestir herself that by six o'clock the
next morning the various packages were rolled up for bestowal on
the sumpter horses, and the goods to be left at home locked up
in chests, and committed to the charge of the trusty seneschal
and his wife; a meal, to be taken in haste, was spread on the
table in the hall, to be swallowed while the little rough ponies
were being laden.

Mass was to be heard at the first halting-place, the Benedictine
nunnery of Trefontana on Lammermuir, where Lilias Drummond was
to be left, to be passed on, when occasion served, to the
Sisterhood at Edinburgh.

The fresh morning breezes over the world of heather brightened
the cheeks and the spirits of the two sisters; the first wrench
of parting was over with them, and they found themselves treated
with much more observance than usual, though they did not know
that the horses they were riding had been trained for the
special use of the Lady of Glenuskie and her daughter Annis upon
the journey.

They rode on gaily, Jean with her inseparable falcon Skywing,
Eleanor with her father's harp bestowed behind her--she would
trust it to no one else. They were squired by their two
cousins, David and Malcolm, who, in spite of David's murmurs,
felt the exhilaration of the future as much as they did, as they
coursed over the heather, David with two great greyhounds with
majestic heads at his side, Finn and Finvola, as they were