Lady Victoria Campbell

"REST AND BE THANKFUL" 325
held my peace, and again had a great inward smile
when Ralph and Maisie, who seemed to be his
shadow, said : " McPhail says it is too dark ;
can see nothing smaller than a haystack." I
replied : " Yes, you might be the rabbit." So,
instead of this, these two sportive persons went out
to see Professor Dixon's boat drawn up for the
winter by moonlight, which, Maisie declared, was
a weird sight.
Before dinner Meg and I walked over to the
Cathedral. I showed her the window where we sat
langsyne, after coming over the Bishop's wall.
Sunday we worshipped very much according to
the Presbyterian rites. When I apologised for the
absence of hymns, explaining how they were
always used now in modern churches, Maisie said
reprovingly : " Oh ! I do like the paraphrases so
much." I felt small. Then Meg : "I would much
rather go to this Cathedral, than the one down
there," signing to the Cowley Fathers.
Then on Sunday the trio walked, and got well
away before I had the Class in the dining-room.
We had high tea in the evening.
As you will see, the Islands are the last places
to let one get one's own way entirely.
If Lady Victoria did not always get her own way
in the islands, neither did the islanders under her
beneficent laws for their welfare. " She would gie' us
an awful cuff with one hand, but she wad aye be liftin
us up wi' the ither," was said by one who lived under