it was a tenderness that had nearly cost him his life at alamance , when that bloody-minded fool william buccleigh mackenzie had mistaken roger 's concern for morag mackenzie for ... well , all right , he 'd kissed her , but only on the forehead , and for god 's sake , she was his own many-times-great-grannie ... and the thundering idiocy of nearly being killed by your own great-great-etc.-grandfather for molesting his wife ... it had cost him his voice , and he should have learned his lesson , but he had n't , not well enough .