(1) The writer must add that personally, as a Scot, she has no right to use this pronoun.  Scotland is entirely guiltless of this crime.  The Scots were fighting on the side of France through all these wars, a little perhaps for love of France, but much more out of natural hostility to the English.  Yet at this time of day, except to state that fact, it is scarcely necessary to throw off the responsibility.  The English side is now our side, though it was not so in the fifteenth century:  and a writer of the English tongue must naturally desire that there should at least be fair play.

(2) I am informed, however, that she is already “Venerable,” not a very appropriate title—­the same, I presume, as Bienheureuse, which is prettier,—­and may therefore be addressed by the faithful in prayer, though her rank is only, as it were, brevet rank, and her elevation incomplete.