Date Posted:Thu, August 01 2024, 10:35:39 Author: Janet Subject: QOTD
The following quote is taken from Written in My Own Heart’s Blood by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 5, The Passions of Young Men. Copyright 2014, All Rights Reserved.
I shook my head, dismissing the dozen things I could do nothing about. During this minor reverie, Jenny and Mrs. Figg appeared to have been discussing William and his abrupt departure from the scene.
“Where would he go to, I wonder?” Mrs. Fig looked worriedly toward the wall of the stairwell, pocked with blood smeared dents left by William”s fist.
“Gone to find a bottle, a fight, or a woman,” said Jenny, with the authority of a wife, sister, and the mother of sons. “Maybe all three.”
This makes me smile every time I read it. Jenny is nothing if not pragmatic! I often wonder what she would have done if she found Young Ian in the brothel in Edinburgh instead of Old Ian…..
