[ Jamie just wants her closer, and so, he wraps his arm around her completely, pulling her to his chest so that he can play with her hair and drop kisses to the top of her head as he sees fit. ]

I dinna ken where to start. We agreed not to go back to Scotland and accept an offer from the Governor of North Carolina. Ten thousand acres of land. It's ours, Sassenach. Or it was, before this. We were to have tenants. We had animals, ye were beginning to tend to a wee garden that I ken would've been large one day.

[ He plays with a curl, just intent to hold her here as he speaks. ]

We've managed to befriend the Cherokee. Ian spends a fair amount of time with them. I spend my days trying to recruit fellow Scots to come settle at Fraser's Ridge. You tend to people, deliver bairns, make house calls.

[ There's nothing but pride for her in his voice. ]