CHAPTER FOURThe Duke had awoken to feel as if some menacing shadow lay over him and his depression was not lightened as he heard the sounds of the Clansmen outside The Castle and the music from half-a-dozen different pipers.
He realised that for his people it would be a day of excitement and rejoicing even though they might resent their affiliation with the Kilcraigs.
But for himself, he thought, it was a day when he would walk into a trap and there was no manner in which he could extricate himself.
He could not prevent himself from continually thinking of the woman he was to marry.
If ever he had visualised himself as married, it had always been to some sophisticated and beautiful creature who moved in the same world as he did. As his wife, she would be admired and even more he would
