Chapter Ten
The following week was a haze in Tibullus’s mind when he looked back afterwards, being filled with delights more extreme and more daring than anything he would ever have imagined – until something bad happened and spoilt everything.
He was possessor of three girls, one full figured and bold, and who was even leader in their activities for much of the time, the other two slender and quiet, but harbouring a larder of ecstasy which was all the greater for having to be coaxed from them. If anything it was too much: life would seem too disappointing afterwards, he feared. Almost for that reason he didn’t avail himself of everything at his disposal all the time – some nights he only had Ascenda, a couple of nights only Drusilla and Luxor, one night only one of these two. But he had
