To Tempt a Bride by Edith Layton

Author:Edith Layton
Language: ron
Format: mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“So,” she asked Nell, “when are you going to leave us?”

Nell lay still but opened her eyes. “Soon as I find a gent I want to go with, and that won’t take long.” Her expression was unreadable as she angled her head so she could search Camille’s face. “What do you think of Eric Ford?”

Camille’s sudden loss of color was her answer.

Nell shrugged. “I’m not saying he’s the one I’ll choose. There are others I have in mind as well. I’ve been talking to some of them when we’re out at balls and such. My cousin found out too,” she added. “He’s smart. He realized it right off when we were at that Venetian Ball and tried to protect me by saying I was shy. You’re right, that’s a cawker, isn’t it? Don’t blame him. He’s a decent man and a kind-hearted one. He didn’t want to see me blot my copybook. He wants me to have a future. And he doesn’t know I kept at it after, or he’d murder me! A fine lecture he read at me, I can tell you. I hung my head, like a nice girl should. But I was seeing what my possibilities were, and I still am.”

“You’ve…met…with Eric then?” Camille managed to say.

“No, but I’m not done interviewing,” Nell said. She sat up abruptly. “Look, that’s all I do. I give a taste. I show a sample to a few chaps, nothing more. I told you, I’m not destined for Haymarket ware. A girl who throws up her skirts right away is a slut, and she’ll never make a decent living, much less her fortune, that way. You have to tempt and lure, make yourself seem scarce and rare, if you want to succeed.

“Because,” she said, leaning toward Nell for emphasis, “a woman’s worth in bed is what she makes it. It’s like men and their sizes, it doesn’t really matter that much. Most of it is in the mind and the method, not what you were born with. You make a fellow think that he’s done wonders, and you are one yourself, at least to him.”

“And the pleasure in it for yourself?” Camille asked, though she thought she already knew what Nell would say.

“The pleasure is in the success,” Nell said. “Are you going to eat those grapes?”

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