I do not know whether you are at all used with our Scottish form; but in case you are not I will find your places for you; and Dr.Henry Gray, of St.Mary's (under whom I sit), is as good a preacher as we have to show you.' This put me in a quandary.

It was a degree of risk I was scarce prepared for.

Dozens of people, who might pass me by in the street with no more than a second look, would go on from the second to the third, and from that to a final recognition, if I were set before them, immobilised in a pew, during the whole time of service.

An unlucky turn of the head would suffice to arrest their attention.

'Who is that ?' they would think: 'surely I should know him!' and, a church being the place in all the world where one has least to think of, it was ten to one they would end by remembering me before the benediction.