Chapter Six
Some days later, in the late afternoon of the appointed day for the consummation of her relationship with Igor, Yolande had the two girls, Isobel and Yseult, bathe her. Afterwards, they massaged her body with scented oil and dressed her in a silk shift. They brushed her hair till it shone, and put a little shadow on her eyes, and some rouge on her lips. Yolande was not accustomed to beautifying herself; in fact she despised women who spent all their time making themselves attractive to men. But she wanted to make sure that Igor would be overcome with desire to the extent that he had no thoughts of anything but possessing her. Yolande never thought about her beauty; if she had, she would have realised that even without artificial aids her allure was such that few men could resi
