Fortunately he slept most of the way to the house that had been lent to them by another Peer where they were to stay their first night.
They arrived in time for dinner and, while g*****a was changing, she heard her husband moving about in the next room and realised that there was a communicating door through which he could visit her.
She felt herself shiver and had gone down to dinner to eye him warily, finding it difficult to laugh at his jokes and even more difficult to understand the innuendos in many of the things he said to her.
He drank a great deal and, although she sipped a glass of wine and tried to do justice to the many dishes that had been prepared for them, she felt cold and when she went to her bedroom she was shivering.
As she undressed, she knew she was afraid as she ha
