Highlander In Love by Julia London

Author:Julia London [London, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Highland
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“Good morning, Douglas!” Mared chirped, and the two young women looked at her as if she’d lost her mind. “What is it, then? Oh! Ye must think me impertinent,” she said, and with an easy laugh, she shook her head. “I beg yer pardon, but on Sundays I’m no’ in his masterful employ.”

Rodina’s eyes grew wide, and she looked anxiously at Payton. Una was too shocked to peel her gaze from Mared.

“Sundays ye are free to come and go as ye please,” he politely corrected her. “But ye are still very much in my employ, Miss Lockhart.”

“Am I?” she asked cheerfully, and put a hand over her eyes to shield them from the sun as she looked up at him. “Then I do beg yer pardon, milord, for I misunderstood completely.”

“I’m scarcely surprised, as ye seem prone to misunderstanding.”

“I prefer to say I am open to differing interpretations,” she cheerfully retorted and bobbed a curtsey at him, all the while looking at him with a devilish spark in her eye.

Rodina and Una gaped at both of them.

Payton shifted his smile to them. “Yer gowns are quite lovely,” he said.

“Thank ye, milord,” Una said. “Miss Lockhart gave them to us.”

“Well…no’me,” Mared clarified. “The gowns were a gift from Miss Douglas.”

Payton knew better than that. Sarah lumped servants and dogs together in her thinking, and she would not make a gift of her gowns to two lowly housemaids.

“She was very pleased with Rodina and Una’s service. She told me so more than once,” Mared added, looking at him pointedly.

It took him a moment, but when he realized that as it was customary for a lady to pass her gowns to a housekeeper when she had grown tired of them, he assumed Sarah must have given them to Mared.

Mared, in turn, had given them to Rodina and Una, extending the thanks that would never come from Sarah.

He glanced at Mared. She cocked her head.

She’d have no argument from him. Rodina and Una were good chambermaids, and they’d both worked hard to keep Eilean Ros in order after Mrs. Craig’s death. He greatly appreciated Mared’s act of kindness, and he smiled at Rodina and Una. “Aye, she said as much to me, as well. In fact, it was the last thing that she said upon her departure.”

“Oh!” Una said, obviously surprised, and looked at Rodina.

“Shedid?” Rodina asked with a bit of a squeal.

“She did indeed.” The two women grinned at one another. “If ye ladies would be so kind as to pardon me, I’d have a word with Miss Lockhart.”

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“Oh, indeed, milord!” Una said, linking arms with Rodina, and the two housemaids walked away and up the drive, whispering and laughing as they stole a glimpse over their shoulder at Payton.

Mared watched them walk, and when they were out of hearing distance, she smiled slyly at Payton.

“Thank ye.”

“It is I who should be thanking ye,” he said. “How very kind of ye to give them those gowns when ye are obviously in need of them yerself.

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