Lady Victoria Campbell

"REST AND BE THANKFUL" 323
George in Jura, the little Balfours found her in Tiree,
and Iona was often colonised by those granddaughters
the Duke called " the Suffragan Bishops." " Week
of great beauty. Pleasure in Glyn girls," is her
remembrance of these days. She loved to find herself
with the young generation, and the letters to the
absent parents, not half as anxious as the " Martha "
Aunt, were full of detail. In Iona she trusted Mr.
McPhail to aid her in a watchfulness she could not
exercise when they took to the boats. " I tell
McPhail I do put my trust in man," she writes.
McPhail had more than once withstood her own
intention of crossing the Sound, when it was a smother
of foam below, and of drifting blasts above ; days
when she would have quaked to let anyone but herself
put foot in a boat.
To keep her trysts, and to do her work, Lady
Victoria had always a firm conviction that the way
would be made plain. It was not always so clear
to those who had to take her across the ferry. Their
faith did fail them. She once, not too well pleased
to meet with opposition, told McPhail he was no
Christian. The answer she received was conclusive,
that he preferred they should be living Christians
on Iona, than dead ones at the bottom of the Sound.
Iona. Sep. 18th, 1905.
My dearest Mary,
With the preface that the trio are delightful,
I shall give you details to make you laugh, but mind
you don't betray me.