Jacqueline evidently needed no more encouragement than that.
She told Angus of her family, of her mother and her mother’s marriages, and more of this Duncan whom she seemed to regard as her own father though they shared no blood. She told of her elder half-sister, speaking with affection despite that woman’s obvious selfishness.
Jacqueline spoke of the charm of her younger sister, Esmeraude, and the sweetness of Mhairi, the youngest sister of them all. She sprinkled her descriptions with anecdotes and memories, pranks the girls had played upon each other and adventures they had had.
She told him more of leaving France, of her fears for the future at that time, of her delight with the beauty of Ceinn-beithe and its wildness. She expressed frustration with the social expectations and rigi
