eight o'clock exactly
It will be a good excuse for you to ride over with it this evening . '' So saying , she sprang lightly from the pillion on which she had been riding behind Archie . The lad rode back in wild excitement at the thought that before night he was to see his hero whose deeds had , for the last three years , excited his admiration and wonder . At eight o'clock exactly he drew rein again at Lamington . He was at once admitted , and was conducted to a room where the mistress of the house was sitting , and where beside her stood a very tall and powerfully built young man , with a singularly handsome face and a courteous and gentle manner which seemed altogether out of character with the desperate adventures in which he was constantly engaged . In Scotland the laws of chivalry , as they were strictly observed in the courts of England and France , did not prevail . Sir William Wallace had not received the order of knighthood ; but in Scotch families the prefix of Sir descended from father to eldest son , as it does in the present day with the title of Baronet .