The Green Lady by Sue Lawrence

Author:Sue Lawrence
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Saraband
Published: 2022-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

I took a deep breath. So she had a decent burial near to Loch Leven and even had a royal person to mourn her passing. Well, that was something, I suppose. The more I had thought about the entire matter, the more I’d become convinced that Alexander could not possibly have planned her death, though I was still bewildered by the cause of the horrors I’d witnessed.

We are all trying to get on with our lives and thankfully we ladies are always busy with households to run, and the children, while the men go about their normal business of hunting and looking after the estates. But on the few occasions I have met Alexander, I have tried to snatch a look at him to see if he, like us, is still suffering. Thus far, he seems to be hiding his grief well.

And indeed the other news is that he is very soon to marry my stepdaughter, Grizel Leslie. She is nearly sixteen and therefore of marrying age. My husband, her father, is pleased at the match and the girl herself is overjoyed as she has always wanted to have a title. And now she will become Lady Fyvie.

I was going to end my letter here, dear Sister Marie, but I know that my sister confided in you, so I hope you don’t mind my doing the same, for there is no one else I can speak to or write to about my misgivings. And though they do concern your nephew, I feel I must put our family’s side to you.

I had begun to wonder about Alexander and his feelings about the death of his wife, my beloved sister. When we were all at Fyvie last month to celebrate his betrothal with Grizel, I heard him telling his eldest daughter, Anne, to cheer up. I was within earshot and could hear her tell him that she did not want him to marry Grizel and he turned on her and demanded, in an urgent whisper, to know the reason. When the poor girl said she did not want another mother, that she was still sad about her real mama’s death, he only shook his head and walked away.

I went over to her and put my arm around her and she started to cry. She is so young to have lost her beloved mother.

I tried to comfort her, stroking her hair as I told her things would turn out fine. I said that hopefully she would end up becoming best friends with her papa’s new wife as they were so close in age.

She turned her tear-stained face towards me and told me quite clearly that Grizel didn’t like her, nor indeed any of them; she only liked her papa.

I told her that was nonsense and wiped her tears away as Grizel herself approached. As usual, her father had agreed to buy her a new gown, again in the same colour as her remarkable blue eyes.

Her thick dark hair was hanging loose around her bare shoulders.

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