“You have no objection, I hope?” continued the minister, finding him silent.
“What says she hersel? Ye comena to me first, I reckon!”
“She said, or implied at least, that she could not leave the child. But she cannot mean that!”
“And what for no?—There’s nae need for me to objeck!”
“But I shall soon persuade her to withdraw that objection!”
“Then I should hae objections—mair nor ane—to put to the fore!”
“You surprise me! Is not a woman to leave father and mother and cleave to her husband?”
“Ow ay—sae be the woman is his wife! Than lat nane sun’er them!—But there’s anither sayin, sir, that I doobt may hae something to dee wi’ Maggie’s answer!”
“And what, pray, may that be?”
“That man or woman must leave father and mother, wife and child, for the sake o’ the Son o’ Man.”