“Where Young Ian goes, Rachel says she’s goin’, too, and that means so does the wee yin. Ye dinna think I mean to leave my youngest grandchild to the mercies of bears and wild Indians, do ye? That’s a rhetorical question,” she added, with a pleased air of having put a stop to him. “That means I dinna expect ye to answer it.” “Ye wouldna ken a rhetorical question from a hole in the ground if I hadna told ye what one was!” “Well, then, ye should recognize one when it bites ye on the nose,” she said, sticking her own lang neb up in the air.
