But when I told Mrs. Mavor, after two years had gone, she only said,
'Old things are passed away, all things are become new'; but the light
glowed in her eyes till I could not see their colour. But all that, too,
is another story.
CHAPTER XV
COMING TO THEIR OWN
A man with a conscience is often provoking, sometimes impossible.
Persuasion is lost upon him. He will not get angry, and he looks at one
with such a far-away expression in his face that in striving to persuade
him one feels earthly and even fiendish. At least this was my experience
with Craig. He spent a week with me just before he sailed for the Old
Land, for the purpose, as he said, of getting some of the coal dust and
other grime out of him.
He made me angry the last night of his stay, and all the more that he
remained quite sweetly unmoved. It was a strategic mistake of mine to
tell him how Nelson came home to us, and how Graeme stood up before
the 'Varsity chaps at my supper and made his confession and confused
Rattray's easy-stepping profanity, and started his own five-year league.
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