The minister admonished her many times, telling her, among other things, that her irreligious ways were a distress to her husband.

She never replied that she could not go to church in the forenoon because Sanders insisted on a hot meal being waiting him when the service ended.

But it was true that Sanders, for appearance's sake, would have had her go to church in the afternoons.

It is now believed that on this point alone did she refuse to do as she was bidden.

Nanny was very far from perfect, and the reason she forsook the kirk utterly was because she had no Sabbath clothes.
She died as she had lived, saying not a word when the minister, thinking it his duty, drew a cruel comparison between her life and her husband's.
"I got my first glimpse into the real state of affairs in that house," the doctor told me one night on the brae, "the day before she died 'You're sure there's no hope for me ?' she asked wistfully, and when I had to tell the truth she sank back on the pillow with a look of joy." Nanny died with a lie on her lips.