I trust that we are all Christians, Glenfernie!" The laird made a dissenting sound.

"I kenned," he said, and his voice held a grating gibe, "that you had left the Kirk." Mr.Archibald Touris sipped his tea.

"I did not leave it so far, Glenfernie, that I cannot return! In England, for business reasons, I found it wiser to live as lived the most that I served.

Naaman was permitted to bow himself in the house of Rimmon." "You are not Naaman," answered the laird.

"Moreover, I hold that Naaman sinned!" Mrs.Jardine would make a diversion.