Little Lady Agency And the Prince
“Not only because it was sweet revenge on my miserable adolescence to have fully licit romps at last in the four-poster bed, instead of just reading Jilly Cooper novels and pretending, but because I frequently lay there afterwards, my brain ticking over with all the possible things that might go wrong.Like, what had my father been talking about for so long with Jonathan? Was he making embarrassing allegations about people Jonathan might know? And would Jonathan, the soul of discretion, tell me? ...Then more general things: would the central heating fail at the same time as a freak rainstorm exposed the leaky roof? Had Mummy remembered to take her chicken-fillet bra enhancers out of the bathroom? Was Allegra still sleepwalking?I listened to the steady in–out of Jonathan’s breathing and stared at the strange tableau painted on the roof of the four-poster. At one time it had probably been erotic, but time had flaked off certain key details, leaving a nightmarish jumble of arms, legs, and prudish blanks.MoreLess
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