“You love it,” he said, and she laughed.
Stockings were all of silk, mostly white, but he ordered a couple of pairs of black one too.
“Why?” she asked. “Another fetish?”
“In a way. It might be that on occasion I wish you to appear wearing nothing but your stockings. Black would look rather fetching then.”
She wondered what was implied by the word “appear”? Was this for his private pleasure, or did he have in mind something more public? She didn’t like to push him on these things, not yet. It would all be revealed in time, she was sure. He bought her a diamond necklace. “Every woman should have some good diamonds,” he said. “They will go well with your wedding dress.”
Some of the dresses he bought her were comparatively modest and restrained for day wear, and some were gorgeous gowns f
