Rose stayed at the cottage when Abby left later that day, Rose told her she needed to work on more sketches, but the truth was she needed alone time to try and get this overwhelming funk out of her system.

Rob had called late in the day, apologising to her for not calling, work had intervened, mucked up his plans, had kept him glued to the phone most of the day and he had to head into Inverness for an unplanned meeting with his solicitor and then onto his office in the city and the drive was long and laborious.

He wouldn’t be back till extremely late and he told...