The Virgin of Clan Sinclair by Karen Ranney

Author:Karen Ranney [Ranney, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Historical, General, Regency
ISBN: 9780062242495
Google: KyWuAgAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0062242490
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2014-05-27T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

“Are you certain you understand, Ellice?”

Ellice folded her hands together on her lap, stared at the blue and white carpet beneath her slippered feet and nodded.

Her mother’s heavy French perfume was making her nauseous. Or maybe it was simply this meeting her mother had insisted on, one she’d dreaded.

“I understand,” she said.

“I know such frank talk can be embarrassing, but no daughter of mine will meet her husband ignorant of her duties. A man does not require much to be excited to that state. A glimpse of your breast or bottom will be sufficient that he is able to perform.”

Dear God, please silence my mother. Do something.

God ignored her.

“You must indulge in the act as often as he wishes. You must submit, my child. That’s what men want.”

She could only say a hurried prayer of thanksgiving that her mother hadn’t yet read her book.

Lady Pamela knew that submission was the last thing men wanted.

Her mother sighed. “I’ve thought of this conversation a great deal, my child. I always thought I would give advice to Eudora first.”

Thankfully, her mother seemed to have forgotten the carnal nature of The Lustful Adventures of Lady Pamela.

“Can you not feel your sister near? I can and have all day.”

All she’d been able to think of was her own anxiety. Huntly was a behemoth; the wedding ceremony had been an awe-inspiring event even on such short notice, and the dinner following had been fit for royalty.

How could she possibly be the Countess of Gadsden?

“She would have fit in well here, don’t you agree?” Enid asked, looking around the sitting room.

As opposed to her, who was a poor substitute for the lovely Eudora?

Eudora would have been proper, wouldn’t she? She wouldn’t have been overwhelmed by Huntly. She would have been a regal countess. Perhaps she would have been majestic in her greeting of her bridegroom. When her husband entered, she would open her wrapper and give him a glimpse of the curve of her breast. She might even have bent over and let him look at her bottom.

Everything else would have been done in the darkness. She would have lain still and proper and silent, obeying her mother’s dictates to the letter.

Ellice was tempted to ask her mother if a woman was not supposed to feel passion. If she was brave enough to do that, Enid’s eyes would widen. Her face would take on a rosy hue and she would be rendered speechless.

Or worse, Enid would harangue her for hours about her lack of decorum, her demeanor, and the fact she wasn’t Eudora.

She wished Virginia and Mairi had come to her room, but her mother specifically requested time alone with her daughter. The other women would have told a different story, she was sure of it. They would have spoken of love and eagerness. Light the lamps, sing songs of joy, and prepare yourself for bliss.

A far cry from the endurance her mother counseled.

“Thank you, Mother,” she said, careful to keep her head bowed and her voice low.

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