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I said to him, "I thought you said that Englishmen never did such a thing as this," and he replied in his broad Scottish dialect..."You are upsetting us all at once. You are upsetting us all at once."

All the Scotch nobility attended that church during the season, while they were in London, and I was amazed at the titles as the Reverend Doctor rolled them off his tongue. There were Dukes, Lords, Baronets...by the score. As it is the custom in England to follow the lead of royalty and nobility, the consequence was that there were long articles in the Times, Pall Mall Gazette, Telegraph and other great papers of London the next morning which fixed our status in society and made lecture engagements easy. Bright Eyes and Lady Ellen became fast friends, and she insisted that we should become her guests on her estate in Scotland, but when we got to Scotland, Lady Ellen was in the south of France on account of her health. She had, however, ordered those in charge of her estate to entertain us as long as we could be induced to stay. When Bright Eyes heard that Lady Ellen was away she declined to go. Under the urgent request of the gentleman in charge of the estate, we took lunch there one day and rode over the estate in a carriage.