I was, although I ought to have had sense, being ten years his senior and a widow.

He picked the worst of the bunch.

Luckily, he could get away from Matilda, for he was always fighting somewhere, and perhaps he never found out.

He kept his simplicity to the day he died.

Some people thought he married Matilda because she was one of the Stewart heiresses, and the Drummonds were as poor as church mice.