“I’m not screwing around.”
“It isn’t just the Markham b***h. I bet you have other women when you’re up in London.”
It seemed more of an assertion than a question and Louis thought there was little point in replying.
“You do realise we’ll lose Fakenham Hall, don’t you?”
“Why should we?”
“No career equals no big house.”
“You’d get something in the city.”
“Don’t count on it as the economy stands right now.”
“I’ve got my own ideas how I would use the estate,” said Carolyn. ‘But I can think of another way of dealing with this,” she said.
“What do you want, blood?”
“In a manner of speaking?”
“What?”
“I get to punish you.”
“How?”
“Like you were punished at school?”
“What, with the cane?”
“Exactly right.”
“Do you think you’d get off on that?”
“You know, I think I just might.”
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