The vestry was empty, the gown was on the floor.

Peter gathered it up with as perturbed an air as if Mr Finlay had omitted a point of church observance.

"I doubt they get into slack ways in these missions," said Peter.

He had been unable, with Dr Drummond, to see the necessity for such extensions.
Meanwhile Hugh Finlay, in secular attire, had left the church by the vestry door, and was rapidly overtaking groups of his hearers as they walked homeward.

He was unusually aware of his change of dress because of a letter in the inside pocket of his coat.