Her father, Sir Robert Laurie, was a bitter enemy of the Covenantry, and his name finds a somewhat unenviable fame in mortuary verses of this sort cut upon gravestones: "Douglas of Stenhouse, Laurie of Maxwelton, Caused Count Baillie give me martyrdom.

If you don't have her marry Laurie in the second part, I shall never forgive you, and none of the girls in our school will ever read any more of your books.