Chapter ThreeIt took a long time to reach Inverness where they stayed the night before starting out early in the morning by carriage, which was to carry them to Strathblane Castle.
It was a well-sprung travelling carriage drawn by four stalwart horses, which Clova learnt had been sent to Inverness to await their arrival.
To her surprise Torbot McBlane did not step inside with her, but on the box with the coachman because, as he told her, he needed some fresh air.
She had the feeling that he was also rather bored at having to make conversation and was by nature a quiet man who seldom expressed his feelings.
She felt sure that this was true of all Scots.
It had been the trouble with her father, who doubtless never paid her mother the fulsome compliments that she had so much enjoyed rece
