I thought of the crowded streets of Edinburgh with trams and omnibuses and people crammed into dark streets of tenements, living between tedious jobs and damp-roomed houses. Only a century before or less they had lived in this vast space; the lives of thousands altered on the whim of a landowner. I thought of the scene I had witnessed, the brutality of forced eviction. Was life intended to be so unfair? There must be something better for the majority.
"She"s not the little innocent you think she is," Kate stepped beside me.
I had to refocus my mind from the visions of the previous night. "Who?" I asked.
"Young Christine," Kate said. "I said: she"s not the little innocent she appears to be."
"She"s a full grown woman," I said. "She"s not a little girl anymore." I was careful not to crit
