.. it couldn't be possible. We hadn't said anything to one another since her startling revelation, and now I saw her staring at me, a question in her ...yes."You looked shocked when I told you my name! And why were you writing down those different spellings of Felina?" Look, it's complicated," I said, "Do you have a hotel?" Yes, of course. I'm staying at the Camino Real downtown. I have a reservation for a week."I handed her the copy of my dad's book. "Look, if I'm too forward, let me know. Why. Soon I was standing there in just my panties and a sweatshirt.“Now that looks just wrong,” Beth said.“You’re right!” Denise yelled. Then she came over, took the knife from Judy and slit my sweatshirt down the front, starting at the collar.“Almost,” she said as she moved to the sleeves and cut each one from the collar down to the wrist. Now I was standing there in just my bra and panties.“I’m up,” Mary yelled and started kicking soccer balls at me. Mary is nowhere as good as Denise. She only got. “ Trick! ” Then changed my mind and said, “ No! Treat! ” and then when I realized what an idiot I was sounding like said in frustration, “ Hell, I don't know, pick one! ”I had been counting on Bernadette running interference for me but, at the last minute she called to tell me that she was going to have to work overtime. I offered to wait at home so we could go to the party together but she insisted otherwise .Fortunately after I'd made an ass out of myself stammering like an idiot, Veranda. So, a move was made to advance on the Fifers. Scouts had reported they had retreated further up Glen Fyne, between the peaks of Ceann Garbh and Meall an Fhudair, crossing the mountains in an attempt to get to the natural path back to Fife, Strathfillan, through Glen Falloch (joining the path that in modern times is known as 'The West Highland Way').This was no path for mounted men and Scott therefore left the infantry to follow the Fifers closely while he and Gabrain took the longer, but easier.