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wailed the lop-sided William who , with several other members of the billet , had been included in the dispensation . ` I 'll tell ye what it means , onyway , ' said Lance-corporal Jake ; ` it means that we 'll be gettin ' a move on afore we 're mony days aulder . ' Macgregor did not enter into any of the discussions which followed . Having hurriedly made himself as smart as possible , he took car for Glasgow , and there caught the ten o'clock train for Aberdeen . He spent the ensuing four hours in wondering -- not so much what he should say to Christina as what she would say to him . For himself , he was determined to make a clean breast of it ; at the same time , he was not going to absolve Christina of all responsibility . He had behaved like a fool , he admitted , but he still had a just grievance .