In fact, no governess would stay, and so Angus became my tutor and taught me old Gaelic and Latin and Greek, and we read together and studied the ancient books in the library.

It was a strange education for a girl, and no doubt made me more than ever unlike others.

But my life was the life I loved.
When my guardian decided that I must live with him in London and be educated as modern girls were, I tried to be obedient and went to him; but before two months had passed my wretchedness had made me so ill that the doctor said I should go into a decline and die if I were not sent back to Muircarrie.
"It's not only the London air that seems to poison her," he said when Jean talked to him about me; "it is something else.

She will not live, that's all.

Sir Ian must send her home." As I have said before, I had been an unattractive child and I was a plain, uninteresting sort of girl.