TWENTY-SIX
"Honestly, I'm not sure why we're all told it's so dangerous, for an unmarried girl to share a bed with a man. You've been the perfect gentleman, every night. To hear my father talk, I thought every nobleman was a monster, wanting to r****h me the moment he got near me. Whereas you haven't even tried to r****h me. Not once." Ursula sounded almost disappointed.
Bernard laughed softly. "Your father knows all men are tempted to do such things, but honour keeps them resisting temptation. In the Holy Land, the men are not so restrained, or so I must assume. The women there cover not only their hair but their faces, too, and their dresses are shapeless, so no man is tempted by what is hidden underneath. They do this because their men apparently turn into ravening monsters if they s
