Frang had walked up and heard Isobel's last comment. He laughed to hear it. He'd finished critiquing the battle for Thorburn's troops and they'd followed him up. "Do you hear that, lads. My wife is afraid to give away her secrets to the point where it only takes two or three of you to do her in."

A bunch of them laughed. "Please, Lady Isobel," one said, "all the others are laughing at us for getting killed so easily by two lasses. Tell us what you can."

"Just tell them they're welcome to try themselves if they think it's so easy," Isobel said.

A bunch of them laughed at that....