In the autumn he had told Jarvis Barrow of that hour with Elspeth in the stubble-field.

The old man listened, then, "They are strange warks, women!" he said, and almost immediately went on to speak of other things.

There seemed no sympathy and no regret for the earthly happening.

But he liked to debate with the laird election and the perseverance of the saints.
Jenny Barrow, only, could not be held from exclamation over Glenfernie's defection.

"Why does he na come as he used to?
Wha's done aught to him or said a word to gie offense ?" She talked to Menie and Merran since Elspeth and Gilian gave her notice that they were wearied of the subject.