Bride of the Solway. Joanna Maitland

glad I packed they heavy petticoats,’ Morag said. ‘We are all like to freeze t’ death in there.’

      ‘I’m sure the colonel will make us more than comfortable,’ Cassie said, though she was not at all sure she spoke the truth.

      ‘Aye, well, I’ll judge that after I see for myself. He’d have done much better to build a fine new house, where a body could be warm and dry. There’s bound to be draughts everywhere. And the lums will reek.’