Lady Runcie Campbell• ‘Outstanding beauty of face…earnestness of spirit’

• She had an ability to exalt people out of their humdrum selves’

• ‘Her father the judge had bequeathed to her a passion for justice, profound and intelligence’

• ‘The contradiction between her emulation of Christ and her eminence as a baronet’s wife’ (p41)

• ‘Not all our animals are ugly, cruel, savage and beastly; some are beautiful and gentle’ (p43)

• ‘I’m going to abide by your decision’ (to Duror)

• ‘within her was a struggle between her Christian sympathy…and her pride as a patrician’ (p48)

• ‘She felt that her own hands and face were all blood’ (p72)

• ‘She blames Calum for spoiling the deer hunt.’

• ‘the grand lady, the representative of aristocracy’ (p77)

• ‘I shall leave the decision to you’

Roderick

• ‘weak in body and complicated in mind’• ‘He had never liked Duror’• ‘He has an immense admiration for him’

(Calum’s climbing)• ‘you told me yourself… never to be quiet if I

saw injustice being done.’(p77)• ‘aren’t you the complete democrat?’ (p91)• ‘We didn’t treat them fairly’

Duror

• ‘His tragedy was now to be played out in public’ (p35)

• ‘That incommunicable phantom, his son; and he felt the treachery of regret’ (p44)

• ‘Was Peggy dead? Suddenly it was as if the burden of misery was lifted from him. He began to laugh’ (p65)

Tulloch

• ‘He loved justice’• ‘I find no fault in them’• Much satisfaction at his own diplomacy (p80)