Chapter Eleven Summary

Within days after Brigham's return to Scotland, the French defeat the English at Fontenoy. Charles and the Jacobites are encouraged by this, but still not receiving any support from France, Prince Charles sells his mother's jewels and outfits a ship, heading for Scotland.

Malcolm is disappointed with being assigned to watch over the house and women rather than being allowed to go to war at eleven-years-old. Malcolm tells him Maggie is pregnant and that Parkins is courting Mrs. Drummond.

Serena is now troubled at the thought of becoming Lady Ashburn. She has none of the domestic or social skills that would qualify her to be a countess, and she tells her mother she is afraid that she will hate that kind of life. She is afraid she will have to change and that Brigham would no longer love her, and she...