When the meal was done and Angus had a second helping of everything, the highlanders rose from the table, thanking Cirus' wife for the delicious and filling meal.  "We will retire to the barn and to our bedrolls.  We will be leaving early on the marrow."  He turned to Marion and asked.  "Would ye walk to the barn with us."  On the way there he walked next to her.  "Perhaps a short walk before I retire.  Time to talk a little, perhaps begin to get to know one another."  he told her.  It was important to find out more about here and perhaps for her to k now about him.  Since they had not known each other for the usual time of courting and talking it only seemed wise to begin somewhere.  He let the others go on to the barn and he walked with Marion out into the fields.  "I know you probably dislike this whole thing of an arranged marriage.  I to am not in favor of it, but I am like me father.  He supported the King and so shall I,  Perhaps we should start by telling a bit about ourselves.  I am sure you have probably heard tales of the Highlanders, as I have of Lowlanders.  We are not savages and barbarians.  We work the land in the mountains and we enjoy life to the fullest as at times it is to short.  As you have seen by the stream, we tend not to have the same restraint that your people here do when it comes to some things."  he chuckled.  "But that is not a bad thing.  We are also warriors as well as farmers and craftsmen.  It is a hard life at times in the Highlands and we do tend to fight the other clans for what we think is our land and they theirs.  Sometimes it is over something stupid, but in the long run it has made us tough and fierce warriors.  My men here could each best five of any man here me thinks.  But enough of the our ways.  I became Laird of me clan when me father died of an illness.  But he had me schooled as I was growing up by the Priests in Latin, French, history, writing and numbers.  He also had tutors come from the mainland to teach me courtly manners and the like, which I find to be not to my liking at all, but I will endure such if need be.  But with all this learning I still managed to get into fights and trouble that caused me father and mother anguish."  again he chuckled.  "Angus, my cousin and I were hellions at times.  I think it has made me who I am today though, and those of me clan know I will not put up with certain things and am respected for it."<br/><br/>He stopped and looked up at the sky and the bright moon above.  "I love to go hunting, not for trophies, but to put meat on the table for me and others.  Thought the trill of the hunt is something that one does enjoy.  "I suppose you do not know how to use a bow.  That is something that the women of the Highlands do know how to use quite well.  They are our archers when it comes to battle and they will go with the men on the hunts.  Some are better then the men, me mother was the best in the clan on the archery contests during the annual festible.  If you like, on the way to the Highlands I can show ye how to use a bow.  Tis not hard to learn.  What about you now."  he asked.  Hopefully he would be able to see what she was like by her telling him something about herself.   He turned them around and headed back towards the barn.