n opportunity to escape to Ireland, and thence to
Holland _via_ France. Here Lady Hume, Grizel, and all the children but
one soon joined him.

Sir Patrick had very little money at this time, and Grizel was soon
sent back to Scotland to attend to some business on his behalf, and
collect money owing to him. She was also to bring back with her a
sister who had been left with friends in Scotland.

Grizel having performed the business entrusted to her, sailed for
Holland with her sister, but before they had been at sea many hours a
terrible storm arose, which, of course, considerably prolonged the
voyage. This would not have been a great hardship, had the captain
been an ordinary man. He happened to be a cowardly bully, and being
short of food for himself, he forcibly took from Grizel and her sister
the biscuits which they had brought aboard for their own use. These he
ate in their presence. But this was not the worst. Grizel had paid
for a cabin bed for herself and sister, but the captain appropriated
it, and they were compelled to sleep on the floor. However, they
arrived in safety at their destination, and Sir Patrick was exceedingly
pleased with the way in which Grizel had transacted his business.

The three years and a half which followed were comparatively uneventful
for the British exiles in Holland. Grizel devoted herself almost
entirely to domestic duties, for her father was too poor to keep
servants, and the only assistance she had was from a little girl who
was paid to come in daily to wash the plates and dishes. Every morning
she rose at six o'clock, and was busy until she retired to bed at
night. She washed and dressed the children, assisted her father in
teaching them, mended their clothes, and performed other duties which
it would be tedious to enumerate. The few hours during which she
managed to be free from domestic duties she devoted to practising music
and studying French and German.

Grizel was now a beautiful young woman, and her gentle manner and
sweetness made her a favourite of all with whom she came into contact.
Two Scotch exiles fell in love with her, but she declined their offers
of marriage, greatly to the surprise of her father, who did not know
that she was the promised wife of another man--George Baillie, son of
his old friend Robert Baillie. George and Grizel had known each other
for many years. George was visiting his father in prison at Edinburgh
when Grizel, to the surpri