At this signal of distress Archie awoke to a sense of his ill-behaviour.

What had he been doing?
He had been exquisitely rude in church to the niece of his housekeeper; he had stared like a lackey and a libertine at a beautiful and modest girl.

It was possible, it was even likely, he would be presented to her after service in the kirk-yard, and then how was he to look?
And there was no excuse.

He had marked the tokens of her shame, of her increasing indignation, and he was such a fool that he had not understood them.

Shame bowed him down, and he looked resolutely at Mr.Torrance; who little supposed, good, worthy man, as he continued to expound justification by faith, what was his true business: to play the part of derivative to a pair of children at the old game of falling in love.
Christina was greatly relieved at first.