She snuggled down against the pillows.
‘I am sure he is not as bad as they say he is, or as he pretends to be,’ she thought.
She had a feeling that he was putting on an act of being so wicked. But why? What was his motive? Some words of Milton came to her mind.
Wisest men
Have erred, and by bad women been deceived.
‘Was that what had happened?’ she wondered.
She was still puzzling over it when she fell asleep.
*
Pandora was awakened by a knock on the door and started nervously, only to realise that the sun was golden at the sides of the curtains and it was morning.
She jumped out of bed to unlock the door and found Mary standing there with a breakfast-tray in her hands.
“Breakfast in bed?” Pandora exclaimed. “How exciting! It is something I have not enjoyed for years.”
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