17. Elizabeth, Lighthouse Point“… So you see, I’ve been entrusted with a kind of mission.”
They’re still sitting on the patio chairs in front of the future distillery. Two days have passed since the beginning of this conversation. Two days during which John MacPhearson, rather than convincing, has let himself be convinced—but to do what? To believe in this faith Elizabeth has just explained to him, to understand it—as though understanding a faith was possible? Or to believe in playing the game because, even though it can’t take him to Heaven, following this path will at least lead him out of Hell?
MacPhearson studies the features of the woman savouring the Tomintoul for which he had to pay an outrageous price at the Bar au Baril in order to leave with the whole bottle. Her face resembles
