an author and sometime lecturer

When he said he would pay her back next week, she looked at him out of the corner of her eye.

To which his answer was: why, that God is eternal motion, Lacy. This is his first orrery.

So clad the Highland soldier is a great deal more comfortable and a great deal more sanely dressed, I believe, than the city dweller who is trousered and underweared within an inch of his life.