What is worst is to come.

Thou mayest have heard that Gilchrist MacIan is dead, and that his son Eachin, who was known in Perth as the apprentice of old Simon, by the name of Conachar, is now the chief of Clan Quhele; and I heard from one of my domestics that there is a strong rumour among the MacIans that the young chief seeks the hand of Catharine in marriage.

My domestic learned this--as a secret, however--while in the Breadalbane country, on some arrangements touching the ensuing combat.

The thing is uncertain but, Henry, it wears a face of likelihood." "Did your lordship's servant see Simon Glover and his daughter ?" said Henry, struggling for breath, and coughing, to conceal from the provost the excess of his agitation.
"He did not," said Sir Patrick; "the Highlanders seemed jealous, and refused to permit him to speak to the old man, and he feared to alarm them by asking to see Catharine.

Besides, he talks no Gaelic, nor had his informer much English, so there may be some mistake in the matter.
Nevertheless, there is such a report, and I thought it best to tell it you.