Read her letter--it came yesterday; a week later than usual.

I should have sent it up to the Castle, for it troubled me a little, especially the postscript; can you make it out?
part of it is under the seal.

It is in answer to what I told her of Duncan; he was always her pet, you know.

How she used to carry him about the garden, even when he grew quite a big boy! Poor Helen!" While the minister went on talking, feebly and wanderingly, in a way that at another time would have struck the earl as something new and rather alarming, Lord Cairnforth eagerly read the letter.

It ended thus: "Tell Dunnie I am awfully glad he is to be a minister.