her, made a casual remark about the "last time she had gone to the
mass."

"I am deeply pained," said the minister gravely. "I knew not that my
brother had been a pervert from the communion of our church."

"Papa was not a Catholic," said Coquette. "Mamma and I were. But it
matters nothing. I will go to your church--it is the same to me. I only
try to be kind to the people around me--that is all."

"She has got the best part of all religions if she does her best for the
people about her," said the Whaup.

"Thomas," remonstrated the minister severely, "you are not competent to
judge of these things."

Coquette's second error was to play the piano on a Sabbath morning. She
was stopped in this hideous offence by the housekeeper, Leezibeth.

"Is the Manse to be turned topsalteery, and made a byword a' because o'
a foreign hussy?" asked Leezibeth.

"Look here," said the Whaup, trying to comfort his weeping cousin, "you
can depend on me. When you get into trouble, send for me, and if any man
or woman in Airlie says a word to you, by jingo I'll punch their head!"

The discovery of a crucifix over the head of the maiden's bed filled
full the cup of Leezibeth's wrath and indignation.

"I thought the Cross was a symbol of all religions," said Coquette