23. MacPhearson, Lighthouse PointI shouldn’t have come. This thought overwhelms MacPhearson as soon as he enters the main room of the New Glen Dubh distillery. Seeing the group of Lighthouse Point inhabitants gathered around the three large barrels ostensibly placed at the centre of the room, he feels like he’s just entered an insane asylum.
He receives a noisy greeting.
“You’re going to be the first tourist to taste our whisky.”
Captain André shakes his hand. MacPhearson has already noticed the local obsession with calling any strangers who disembark here “tourists”. If he wanted to be a tourist, MacPhearson would more likely be visiting a tropical island than Lighthouse Point at the end of March. He ought to have insisted that Elizabeth simply send him one bottle of each of the three
