Wallace had hardly recounted the particulars of his royal visit to Bruce, (who had anxiously awaited his return, and received him with open arms,) when the page, who had attended him during his interview with the queen, again appeared, and presenting him with a silk handkerchief curiously coiled up, said that he brought it from her majesty, who supposed it was his, as she found it in the room where he had been playing the harp. Wallace was going to say that it did not belong to him, when Bruce, seeing more in this than his friend did, gave him a look that directed him to take the handkerchief. Wallace, without a word, obeyed, and the boy withdrew.