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It further meant , that if it were not for one thing more than another , or , as John himself would have expressed it , `` for todder things more nor ones , '' he would have brought his Lochaber axe and the turnkey 's head into more intimate contact . In the meantime , Lady Rae having ascended several flights of dark and narrow stairs , and traversed several passages of a similar description , had arrived at a particular door , on either side of which stood a grenadier , with shouldered musket and bayonet fixed . They were the guards placed upon her husband , who occupied the apartment which they sentinelled . The soldiers , who had orders to admit her ladyship and attendant to the prisoner at any time between the hours of nine in the morning and seven at night , offered no hindrance to her approaching the door and rapping for admittance . This she now did ; and the `` Who 's there ? '' of the captive was replied to in a powerfully Celtic accent by John M'Kay , with -- `` My Letty Rae , my lort . '' The door instantly flew open , and its inmate came forth , with a smiling and delighted countenance , to receive his beautiful and faithful wife .