Amanda Scott - [Border Trilogy 2] - Plot & Excerpts
The Murrays and Sibylla were just finishing their midday meal.Having given his men orders to inform him if anyone approached, Simon excused himself from the table after a gillie murmured the news in his ear.Informing the others that guests had arrived, he said, “You will want to linger at the table, madam. Anyone arriving at this hour cannot yet have dined.”“To be sure, we will stay to welcome them,” Lady Murray said. “But I cannot imagine who has come. It cannot be Cecil Percy, for I told him most particularly that he should come in four weeks’ time.”“How many have come, Simon?” Rosalie asked when he did not reply to Lady Murray’s less direct approach.“The lad said seven, mostly men-at-arms,” he said. Catching Sibylla’s eye, he held her gaze briefly but looked away when she wrinkled her nose at him.Satisfied that she had guessed her father was his chief visitor, he strode from the hall to greet Sir Malcolm. As he crossed the threshold to the stairs, he heard his mother repeat her declaration that she could not imagine who had come.Sibylla turned to Lady Murray and said, “I believe your son sent for my father, madam, a rather highhanded act as I’m sure you will agree.
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