At the same time what lay ahead did not keep him awake when he went to bed soon after dinner.
He climbed into the huge four-poster bed.
As he did so, he asked himself if it was really possible that he should take the place that his father had held for over twenty years.
‘I must try not to make too many mistakes,’ the Earl thought.
Then he remembered the most important thing he had to do before all others.
He must choose those Clansmen who should represent the Clan when the King arrived in Edinburgh.
There would most undoubtedly be a certain amount of disappointment and jealousy.
Nevertheless what most mattered was that the McBraras should take their rightful place as one of the oldest Scottish Clans.
The Clan, of which his father had been so proud, went back to the Battle of Aginco
