And, mark you, the common folk's righteousness, no' ours! This will ring round the land — that it was the Edinburgh wifies who did it, no' John Leslie and James Graham!' 'For that I will thank God, at least!' 'You say so ? I wonder.' He had to shout above the uproar. 'I say, I wonder. Think you it best that the folk should lead in Scotland? No' the nobles? Will you win your moderation that gait? Use your wits, man.’ 'Mm.' Archie Napier had come up. 'John's right,’ he said, urgently. 'I have just had a word with Tom Hope. He is saying the same. That we will have to act quickly now - or the whole cause could get out-of-hand. As this morning has done. This could be like a heather-fire, burning all, bad and good alike. We must control it-if we can ...' 6 There was indeed much talking, and some action in Scotland thereafter. The country rang with that Sunday's doings in Edinburgh - and with the name of Jenny Geddes, stool-thrower and bishop-feller, who suddenly became something of a national heroine.
