"A fine business, he has."
"His daughter married a Ramornie of Pettigrew."
They shook their heads again, if possible more gravely than before.
"He must be going off his head."
"He must be gone, I'd say."
"Yon speech he made was an outrage to common sense and decency!"
"And about his son's marriage!"
"That's Andrew Walkingshaw—his partner?"
"Aye."