Jarvis Barrow, white-headed, strong-featured, intent, sat as in some tower over against Jerusalem, considering the foes that beset her.

Beside him sat his daughter Jenny, in striped petticoat and plain overgown, blue kerchief, and hat of straw.

Next to Jenny was Elspeth in a dim-green stuff, thin, besprent with small flowers, a fine white kerchief, and a wider straw hat.

Robin Greenlaw sat beside Elspeth, and the laird by Greenlaw.

Half the congregation thought with variations: "Wha ever heard of the laird's not being in his ain place?
He and White Farm and Littlefarm maun be well acquaint'! He's foreign, amaist, and gangs his ain gait!" Glenfernie, who had broken the conventions, sat in a profound carelessness of that.