WHITEHOUSE 



" But what/' exclaims the perplexed reader, " has 

 all this to do with the crocuses at Whitehouse ? " 

 Only this, that the crocuses set a desultory mind 

 astray among the memories of Cramond, and, at 

 the time when this astute pluralist was attending 

 the Court of Holyrood, there lived one David Logie 

 at King's Cramond. With David lived a fair daughter 

 Barbara, whom Bishop Gordon made his mistress, 

 and had by her four sons, three of whom he succeeded 

 in getting made bishops. But in one thing he did 

 not succeed, though he tried hard. He never could 

 get Barbara recognised as his wife, even after his 

 change of religion released him technically from his 

 vow of celibacv. 



39 



