Mr. Misfortunate

Mr. Misfortune by Marjorie Bowen is the story of a traveling man who must return to Rome and set things right. Excerpt: «Might he not yet land at Moidart with a French army at his back; might he not, indeed, talk with Lochiel in St. James's over the dangers and miseries of that flight to the islands and the long hiding in the heather? He quickened his step with the force that these thoughts gave him and brushed, rather roughly, against a lady who was coming out of a small grocer's shop, knocking from her hand a packet of candles that rolled towards the gutter.»