She clinks wi' every word ye say.' "I am thinking to myself how Great-aunt Alison would have dreaded Pamela's influence.

She would have seen in her the personification of the World, the Flesh, and the Devil--albeit she would have been much impressed by her long descent: dear Aunt Alison.
"All the same, Davie, it is odd what an effect one's early training has.
D'you remember how discouraged G.-A.

Alison was about our levity--especially mine?
She once said bitterly that I was like the ell-woman--hollow--because I laughed in the middle of the Bible lesson.
And how antiquated and stuffy we thought her views, and took pleasure in assuring ourselves that we had got far beyond them, and you spent an evening tea-less in your room because you said you would rather be a Buddhist than a Disruption Worthy--do you remember that?
"Yes, but Great-aunt Alison had builded better than she knew.

When Pamela laughs 'How Biblical!' or says in her pretty, soft voice that our great-aunt's religion must have been a hard and ugly thing, I get hot with anger and feel I must stick unswervingly to the antiquated views.

Is it because poor Great-aunt isn't here to make me?
I don't know.
"Mhor is really surprisingly naughty.