“But it might be gone, Aunt Kezia.”
“Then it is something you can do without.”
“Is Hatty come home, Aunt?” said Flora.
“Not she,” saith my Aunt Kezia. “Miss Hatty’s gone careering off, the deer know where. I dare be bound you’ll fall in with her. She is gone with Charlotte and Emily up to town.”
I was sorry to hear that. I don’t much want to meet Hatty—above all if Grandmamma be there.
Note 1. The great majority of Scottish Jacobites were Episcopalians and “Moderates,” a term equivalent to the English “High and Dry.” There were, however, a very few Presbyterians among them.