regshoe

Well, I don't know what I can add to regshoe's comments! I remember the first time I read this book, and the increasingly jawdropping way that it just went straight for the iddy slash. And these two chapters are a really great illustration of that, wow.

The description of Ewen and how far he has been broken down is really heartbreaking. We see the scene from Keith's POV, but from Ewen's...first the torture from Guthrie, then the tender mercies of Greening. And finally he has nothing left but to think about how he has betrayed Lochiel! So Keith finally winning through his distrust must really give Ewen back a lifeline of hope and trust again. ♥

Ha, and at the end Keith is at it AGAIN! Yet why, he asked himself, should he care what Ardroy was suffering, now that he had cleared his account with him? As soon as Ewen is no longer in his presence, he's trying to deny his feelings again.

This week's research reading does not actually have much to do with FotH, but is about the very interesting Anne Erroll, main organizer of the Scottish end of the failed Jacobite rebellion of 1708. Read if you like middle-aged competent women.