`` Angry ? My dear , I 'm delighted . '' `` Delighted ? '' `` Yes , you dear goose . Ca n't you guess , or must I tell you ? Sidney and I did the very same , and had just such a melancholy parting last night as I suspect you and Ned had tonight . '' `` Katherine ! '' `` Yes , it 's quite true . And of course we made up our minds to sacrifice ourselves on the altar of duty and all that . But now , thank goodness , there is no need of such wholesale immolation . So just let 's forgive each other . '' `` Oh , '' sighed Edith happily , `` it is almost too good to be true . '' `` It is really providentially ordered , is n't it ? '' said Katherine . `` Ned and I would never have got on together in the world , and you and Sidney would have bored each other to death . As it is , there will be four perfectly happy people instead of four miserable ones . I 'll tell Ned so tomorrow . '' Four Winds Alan Douglas threw down his pen with an impatient exclamation . It was high time his next Sunday 's sermon was written , but he could not concentrate his thoughts on his chosen text . For one thing he did not like it and had selected it only because Elder Trewin , in his call of the evening before , had hinted that it was time for a good stiff doctrinal discourse , such as his predecessor in Rexton , the Rev. Jabez Strong , had delighted in .
Alan hated doctrines -- `` the soul 's staylaces , '' he called them -- but Elder Trewin was a man XXXXX be reckoned with and Alan preached an occasional sermon to please him .
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