Lord Stair came a step nearer.
“So—you set yourself to ruin me?”
“Yes, I.”
“From you sprang the tale of Glencoe?”
“Yes, from me.”
“You caused the Macdonalds to bear false witness?”
“I have been at the bottom of it all, Lord Stair.”
She raised her head.
“I have put that upon you you will never be free of,” she said wildly. “Throughout the world your name is stained with the blood of Glencoe. Nothing can efface what I have done.”
He moved still closer.