I'm Scots, too." Alexander laughed.

They came down to the water and the stepping-stones before White Farm.

The house faced them, long and low, white among trees from which the leaves were falling.

Alexander and Ian crossed upon the stones, and beyond the fringing hazels the dogs came to meet them.
Jarvis Barrow had all the appearance of a figure from that Old Testament in which he was learned.

He might have been a prophet's right-hand man, he might have been the prophet himself.