Angus stayed a few days to put his father's affairs in order, then returned to the States. Before leaving, however, he went down to Glasgow to visit Strathclyde University. They offered him a professorship. He accepted it, and a year later he was back. He moved back into his father's croft and commuted from there to Glasgow on weekdays.
Sometimes he and Colin would go fishing at weekends. Occasionally he would have supper with the Campbells down at the farm by the river. Life seemed to have come back to normal again. And it had - until the great flood, and the big freeze that followed it. Who knows, perhaps it would have happened anyway but it was the flood which caused it.