I lay in bed that night with images from the previous days flashing through my brain. I heard Baird’s words again and again: “I mean to have you as my wife.”
Well, my brave Adonis, I thought, I am already spoken for and have no intention of altering my affections for Baird MacGillivray or anybody else. However, coupled with Mother Faa’s warnings about Kenny, I was more than a little concerned.
Well, my brave AdonisI am already spoken for and have no intention of altering my affections for Baird MacGillivray or anybody elseThe events passed through my mind in a constant procession, repeating endlessly, as I tossed and turned in my narrow bed. I saw again the old man carrying his sticks, Mother Faa with her wise, wrinkled face, Baird MacGillivray and his parents and the luxury of Mysore Ho
