Pages 3 and 4

Calum
"Part-bird then, part-men, he suffered in the ineluctable predicament of necessary pain and death."
" 'There seems to be death in the air.' Calum shivered: he knew and feared death."
" 'I ken you do, Calum,' he said. 'And i ken too that, though you're simple, you're better than any one of them.' "

Neil
" 'What's the matter with me these days, Calum? he asked. Is it i'm getting too old? Am i frightened at something? It just comes over me. Sometimes i think it must be the war.' "
"To look after his brother, he had never got married, though once he had come very near it: that memory often revived to turn his heart melancholy."