" She told him ... how her heart had fairly skipped a beat when she'd seen him standing in the middle of the road dressed as a true Highland warrior." If I hadna been in love wi' you already, I'd have fallen in love wi' you then." He grinned, his whiskery face unbearably bonnie even with its cuts and bruises. " So you like the sight of me in a pladdie, aye?" " Aye--and wi' braids in your hair." She leaned down and kissed him. " But I think red paint looks silly. "