Because he was drunk and causing trouble again with the trollop of a barmaid. Also when Jamie interrupts and says “Honorable Wife” because he knew if Mr. W translated it he would have said Honorable First Wife. A dead give away to Claire that Jamie hadn’t told her something very important.

The book version of Mr W is much different than the TV Mr. W. In the books he is not nearly as fluent in English, an example of this is, in the book Mr.W’s pronunciation of Jamie is “Tsei-mi”. The book Mr.W has a huge foot fetish which has to do with the traditional binding of women’s feet in China. He is portrayed in the book as a more humorous and a less politically correct than one might expect these days. If they portrayed TV Mr. W the same as the book there would be crowds of people most likely screaming about stereotyping Asians. In the book his character fits the time period and is treated according to what might have really happened in the 18th century. No one in Edinburgh would have ever seen an Asian person before and they would have treated one with disrespect, distain and suspicion.

Thank you Laura Joan. I was wondering if Jamie was annoyed about more than just the trouble in the pub.

He didn’t seem drunk! He just wanted some affection from a woman.

That could also be an issue since he was meeting with Sir Percy a paying him because he’s being blackmailed. Mr. W was substantially changed and sanitized by the political correctness of our time. I have found that political correctness in college history books as well. This just burns me up. Teaching history is about teaching people what happened in the past, with no bias. It is for the student to decide how they feel about history, so mistakes such as slavery and indentured servitude never happen again. It’s not about finger pointing and rioting for something that happened a 100, 200 or 500 years ago, we can never change. It’s about understanding how and why something happened and how we do not repeat the mistakes made by our ancestors.

Also the binding of women feet is a perfect example, it was extremely painful, cruel and debilitating to these women. Most could never walk again or if they could they would always have walked many steps behind or have to be carried in a sedan chair behind their husbands. It was to dominate women firstly then continued and made in to a status symbol thus desired by the rich and powerful.

This was wrong in so many ways. But we have evolved beyond these antiquated ideas of women slowly in some ways. But, we can never forget it either. It’s a reminder to women that we don’t have to walk behind men and be silent. We can be loud and in the front of anyone on the battle front of war if we choose.

If you wish to learn more about this terrible practice I recommend reading the Pearl S. Buck book, “The Good Earth”. One I believe everyone should read. It is in the fiction section of the library or fiction in the book store. She does accurately describe this terrible practice among others in a true historical period. So, I consider it to be historical fiction. Ms. Buck lived in China and uses this as the setting of this novel and others books to illustrate the plight of women in the Chinese society of the early 1900’s.

I forgot to mention that I like both Mr.W for different reasons. The TV Mr. W is wonderful in visual medium of TV and the book Mr. W is very different. I like the end of the TV show for Mr. W better because he seemed to be on a personal quest more than physical one and found a kindred spirit in Margaret. Where as Mr. W in the books adds more depth and entanglements to the overall story and a few amusing situations as well.

Willoughby is the one who in B3 turns out to be the traitor who gave the English the info about Jamie's smuggling and printing activities ....that info caused Sir Percival to send the man to the brothel and the other one to the print shop...the little Chinee is the reason Jamie is on the run again....so the positive ends with the acupuncture needles as far as this character is concerned.......