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I have to quote this account, from Maggie Craig in Damn' Rebel Bitches: The Women of the '45, telling how the Laird of Mackintosh was captured by the Jacobites shortly after the Rout of Moy:

The Prince released him into Anne's custody, saying that he was sure he would receive the most honourable treatment in his wife's care. When he was brought to her Anne greeted him with formal politeness.

'Your servant, Captain,' she said.

Her husband was just as polite and just as brief. 'Your servant, Colonel,' he replied.

Although Craig also claims that Anne was said to be passionately in love with her husband! Hey, two people on opposite sides of the '45 nevertheless passionately in love and treating each other honourably as prisoners, it can happen. :P

The loyalty is SO extra, and the bit where he's just lying on the ground in so much pain that it hurts to breathe, but content because he's been assured that Lochiel isn't hurt... EWEN. EWEN.

:D It's great, isn't it! As Broster points out, Ewen's attitude to Lochiel is much like Lachlan's attitude to Ewen, the chain of feudal loyalty and intense emotions continuing up the social hierarchy. Nf sbe Rjra vafcvevat vagrafr yblnygl va trareny, jr ner tbvat gb frr n ovg zber bs gung sebz fbzrbar ryfr fbba rabhtu... :Q