SCENE II

To these, BRODIE and LAWSON.

MARY (CURTSEYING). So, uncle! you have honoured us at last.

LAWSON. QUAM PRIMUM, my dear, QUAM PRIMUM.

BRODIE. Well, father, do you know me? (HE SITS BESIDE HIS
FATHER AND TAKES HIS HAND.)

[OLD BRODIE. William - ay - Deacon. Greater man - than - his
father.

BRODIE. You see, Procurator, the news is as fresh to him as it
was five years ago. He was struck down before he got the
Deaconship, and lives his lost life in mine.

LAWSON. Ay, I mind. He was aye ettling after a bit handle to
his name. He was kind of hurt when first they made me
Procurator.]

MARY. And what have you been talking of?

LAWSON. Just o' thae robberies, Mary. Baith as a burgher and a
Crown offeecial, I tak' the maist absorbing interest in thae
robberies.

LESLIE. Egad, Procurator, and so do I.