Chuckling, Jamie squinted up at the morning sun and replied, "Na, mostly it was my faither's doin'. We used tae walk through the fields in the evenin's, talkin" aboot various matters. And once I reached an age where sic things were a possibility, he told me that a man maun tak" responsibility for the seeds he sows, as it is his duty tae care for and protect a woman. If I wasnae prepared tae dae that, then I had nae richt tae burden a woman wi" the consequences o" my actions."