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After letting the Highlander in, the small woman looked hesitantly up and down the hall before backing into the room and closing the door firmly behind her. An instant later Caddy followed Malcolm MacLeod to the side of Jaime’s bed. As he leaned over the sleeping frame of the young woman and touched her gently on the cheek, the older woman looked on, her anxious expression matching the grim one on the man’s face.
“I’m so glad you’ve come. She hasn’t been well, and I didn’t know who to go to, m’lord,” the woman’s voice carried on over Malcolm's shoulder. “I mean Master Graves is the one supposed to look after her, but whatever it is he is giving her has been making my mistress terribly sick. She hasn’t even opened her eyes in two days. The first day that she took to this bed she slept
