When he was grown up, he built a small house for Betsy and himself and it was there that she saw her ‘patients’ as she liked to call them.
Vara could remember when she had hurt her finger as a child by having it caught in a door.
Her mother had taken her to see Betsy MacKay.
‘Mother MacKay’, as she was always called later, had healed her finger by holding it in her hands and praying.
When Vara went off to England, where they would laugh at such things, she had almost forgotten about Mother MacKay.
Now when Lord Belgrave told her that the Earl’s blindness was due entirely to a Fakir's curse, she knew that this was the answer to her prayers.
If anyone could heal the Earl it was surely not the doctors or the oculists. It was Mother MacKay with her miraculous powers, which she believed c
