May I have the book you spoke of?
Priorsford would be enraged if it heard me calmly discussing its faults and foibles." She laughed softly.

"Lewis Elliot says Priorsford is made up of three classes--the dull, the daft, and the devout." Pamela, looking for the book she wanted to lend to Jean, stopped and stood still as if arrested by the name.
"Lewis Elliot!" "Yes, of Laverlaw.

D'you know him, by any chance ?" "I used to know a Lewis Elliot who had some connection with Priorsford, but I thought he had left it years ago." "Our Lewis Elliot inherited Laverlaw rather unexpectedly some years ago.

Before that he was quite poor.

Perhaps that is what makes him so understanding.