On learning that he does, the Duke puts a proposition to Claire. The Duke sits with Claire during the picnic lunch and asks her if Jamie still has a price on his head in Scotland. The Duke invites Jamie to accompany him to the Royal stables in Argentan, as he wishes Jamie to advise him on the purchase of some broodmares. The Duke tells Jamie that he has dismissed Alex Randall from his employment and Jamie leaves to find Claire to tell her. While Jamie and the Duke are engaged in business, Claire slips away to look for Alex Randall.

After the scandalous appearance of Mary apparently being attacked by Alex Randall, the Duke quietly slips away before the gendarme arrives.Ĭlaire and Jamie go to visit the Duke at his Paris residence, ostensibly to discuss investments, but in reality to try and extract information from him. The Duke arrives with an unexpected extra guest – Mary's uncle, Silas Hawkins. He is invited as a guest at the dinner party that Claire and Jamie host on the evening in which Claire and Mary Hawkins are attacked in the alleyway on their way home. The Duke makes an offer to Charles Stuart of fifty thousand pounds, contingent upon his setting foot on English soil. In 1744, the Duke arrives at the Palace of Versailles with his secretary Alexander Randall.

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