I must have impressed your grandfather somehow, because he wouldn’t have promoted me if he thought I’d end up getting more men killed that way. It is the clothes that make the women.”
I smiled at her. XXX It’s never easy to ask a question like that of someone, even if your motives are political. She rose to questions, didn’t quail from them. I learned two lessons from your grandfather that year. But I was just as eager to get her to myself in a library and pick her brain as I was to get her out of her dress. I would accept your request for your grandfather’s sake, even if I didn’t find you intriguing. I wanted to touch all of her at once, but I settled for one part at a time. In a year or so, grandfather will be unable to raise any objection when the betrothal is announced.”
I had to ask what her
