[ For now, Jamie maintains the story that he and Claire told others; it's easier. If ever there's a time he needs to tell John the truth of things, he'll ask forgiveness later. ]

Just before Culloden, I kent my wife would be just as wanted as I. And we kent she was pregnant. So, I sent her away wi' enough coin to make safe passage to the Colonies. I believed she was safe, and she...believed I was dead.

[ It's not such a lie though, is it? He knew she was gone, and she knew for twenty years that he was as good as dead. ]

She returned to Scotland to show our daughter were she was from, to say goodbye to me. Instead, she found me alive, in Edinburgh.