"I should pay just no attention to it all. Tell him, if you like, what I've said, and that it's grave sin for him to play with it; but don't get thinking that the devil's in everything."
Maggie was puzzled.
"Then it's not the devil?" she asked—"at least not in this case, you think?"
He smiled again reassuringly.
"I should suspect it was a clever trick," he said. "I don't think Master Laurie's likely to get mixed up with the devil in that way. There's plenty of easier ways than that."
"Do you think I should write to Mr. Cathcart?"
"Just as you like. He's a convert, isn't he? I believe I've heard his name."
"I think so."
"Well, it wouldn't do any harm; though I should suspect not much good."
Maggie was silent.