Her mother was never heard to use a Scots expression and thought even a Scots song slightly vulgar.
"I know--I know," said Mrs.Duff-Whalley hastily.

"It just came over me for a minute how your father said it.

He was a very amusing man, your father, very bright to live with, though he was too fond of low Scots expressions for my taste; and he _would_ eat cheese to his tea.

It kept us down, you know.

I've risen a lot in the world since your father left us, though I miss him, of course.