She had then yielded to his entreaties without too much protestation and, as they had but recently made one another’s acquaintance, it was not surprising that he had felt a vast urgency to sample again the delights that she was all too willing to offer him.
Yet when he had reached the door of her house, having previously ascertained that her husband was away from home, he quite suddenly felt a curious dislike of walking up the stone steps that led into the tall imposing mansion situated in a fashionable Mayfair street.
He sat back in his carriage, although his footman had flung open the door. He noted that a piece of red carpet was already being rolled across the pavement by powdered flunkeys.
The light from the open door of the house streamed out over the pavement. He could see the but
