“Don’t be surprised. The upper classes like their bawdy entertainment too. Notice the name of the hotel: the cad from Tom Brown’s Schooldays!”
She added, “You’re to strip completely you realise?”
“Yes.”
Eve Arnot then asked,
“Tell me Sonia, are you gay or straight? Or both?”
“I’ve… just once been to bed with a woman. Otherwise only men.”
“A touch of attraction to women as well. That’s what’s needed for doing this. You noticed this is a mixed audience? To do this job well you’ve got to like the feeling of women’s eyes on you as well as men’s, women desiring you too.”
Isabel suddenly felt vast fellowship. Eve had understood her! She’d just understood herself! She wanted to glory in the feeling she could arouse in people, people of both sexes. She felt excitement stir in her, overcomin
