MY HEART'S IN THE
HIGHLANDS
BOOK I
[CHAPTER I]
A DOCTOR'S VERDICT
"We know
That we have power over ourselves to do
And suffer: What—we know not till we try."
Shelley.
"I DO wish you would be serious!"
"Why on earth should I be?"
Rowena Arbuthnot leant her elbows on the wide windowsill and looked in upon her sister-in-law from the garden, with her mischievous blue-grey eyes which always seemed to twinkle with some hidden joke. Rowena's eyes had been the cause of her continually getting into trouble, from the time she had been a child, when the rector of the parish had requested her not to laugh at him in the pulpit.