Chapter Seven
Madeleine shivered nervously with her back against the door, while waiting for Daniel Prothero to say something. It had been a week since she went to his apartment with the amazing proposal, and to actually find herself there now seemed like a minor miracle. What resolve she’d shown in her dramatic leaving, what vows she seemed to make were just imaginings to her a day later. Once the spell of her erotic mood lifted—and it was a highly erotic mood that had been propelling her forward that day—she could not believe she’d actually been so nervy as to knock on the man’s door and ask him to punish her. She recalled clearly his reminder that she could walk away and never come back; that he’d never hold her to a promise. She believed he was sincere. Never go back was exactly what
