“What is unsporting in being alluring to a man?”
“It is wrong to make him do things he would not do otherwise, simply because a woman tempts him,” Valora snapped.
The Duke put back his head and laughed.
“But that is exactly what women have done since the beginning of time! What about Eve? What about all those alluring women, whom I am sure you have read about in history? They all got their own way because they were beautiful and men admired their faces, not their brains.”
“You are trying to tell me I should not be intelligent,” Valora replied. “Quite simply, if I was ugly, I would not be in the position I am in now.”
Because of what she said she thought of Sir Mortimer, the Duke noticed that she gave a little shiver.
“Having eluded him,” he said, “you now have to use the brains on wh
