Mrs Dewar lived in some style, with a villa between the railway to Arbroath and the Tay. An extensive garden surrounded the property, enclosed by a stout stone wall. The villa itself was relatively new, in Scottish Baronial style with a three storey-high pointed turret at the eastern side and windows that caught the rising sun. The name Broughton House thrust boldly from a stone arch above the door.
“The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life,” Watters quoted the Biblical Romans as he surveyed the house. “Well, Mrs Dewar has avoided death, and gained great rewards for her sins.”
With his feet crunching on the gravel path, Watters marched to the front door, very aware that a woman watched him from an upstairs window. The door opened before he mounted the three steps th
