Absolute Pleasure
“He tried to study nuance and form, but as happened so often of late, his excessive ability to concentrate had vanished, and he couldn't focus on his work with his usual level of passionate commitmentBehind him was the portrait he'd begun of her. The background had been filled in with his customary meticulous attention to detail. The pastoral setting tickled the senses, so lifelike that he could detect the aroma emitted by the roses climbing up the trellis. But the center was blank, as though th...e person who had been posed there had simply strolled away.He couldn't finish it. Although it was absurd to think so, he was convinced that as soon as he painted Elizabeth into the scene, their interval together would abruptly terminate, so he couldn't constrain himself to put brush to canvas.At some point, however, a portrait had to be presented to the Earl of Norwich for payment. Once delivery was made, what fabrication could they possibly use to persist with their trysts?Elizabeth was clever and could certainly devise other pretexts for getting out of the house, but those excuses were few in number, and they would quickly dwindle until there wouldn't be any valid alibi she could offer as to where she was going or where she'd been.She'd already pushed herself to the allowable amount of absences.MoreLess
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