While Virginia and Rose are in Paris with Alice, Richard, James, Georgina, Hudson, Mrs. Bridges, Edward, Daisy and Ruby go to stay in a house owned by Lord Berkhamstead in Carnachy in the Scottish Highlands. Hudson, Mrs. Bridges, Daisy and Ruby arrives first, and find that there is no electricity, the grocery order has not arrived and there is no wood for the fire. On the first evening Roderick McKay, Lord Berkhamstead's , arrives and tells the servants the story of how the former laird died at the house after being injured at the Battle of Culloden. McKay says that the laird returns as a ghost on a handcart during the night, and that evening Ruby hears a cart. When she hears the same the second night, she screams.