“Will you please thank the coachman and this is what I owe him.”
She thought by his smile that he understood what had happened and was delighted.
“I’ll have your luggage brought to your rooms, ma’am,” he said.
Torquil McNairn, who was carrying Jeanie, was already halfway down the passage and Pepita hurried after them.
As if the news of their arrival had alerted the servants in The Castle that something unusual was happening, before they had gone very far an elderly woman came hurrying towards them.
The first sight of her black satin apron and the chatelaine hanging from her waist told Pepita that she was the housekeeper.
“I have a guest for you, Mrs. Sutherland,” Torquil McNairn said, “who is very tired and also very thirsty.”
“I heard that Lord Alistair’s bairns had arrived,” Mrs.
