WHY JESUS WEPT 
17 
 
 
 
SCENE V 
 
 
To CARRUTHERS, in the Office of SIR PERCY’S Ancestral Hall 
enter GREUMOCH. 
 
 
GREUMOCH. 
 
Ay, sir.  The laddie’s in the thick o’t !  Weel ! 
She’ll be off tae th’ muir, a’m thinking, sin’ the dee. 
 
CARRUTHERS. 
 
He goes to solitude ? 
 
GREUMOCH. 
 
Weel, weel, sir, na ! 
She wadna say the laddie wad gang yon. 
 
CARRUTHERS, smiling. 
 
He is ever alone ? 
 
GREUMOCH. 
 
Oo ay, sir, by his lanes. 
 
CARRUTHERS. 
 
Go now, and tell me ever of his doings. 
Exit Greumoch. 
The hour is nigh, but when that hour may strike