“I see you have already made a conquest. Jock has always been violently antagonistic to the MacSteels, but now he has accepted you as my wife and I can now only hope that all my Clansmen will do the same.”
“They must,” Fyna said almost sharply. “We have married for their sake and now they must not let us down.”
“That is just what I hope will happen,” said the Earl, “but I think it will require a certain amount of vigilance on my part and that you must charm my Clan, which should not be very difficult.”
“I hope I – can do – that,” Fyna said.
She did not look at the Earl as she spoke and he knew once again that she was frightened.
They went into the sitting room and he showed her some of the books he thought that she would find interesting because they were histories of Scotland.
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