“Let’s talk about this coolly and sensibly,” he suggested. “Does David believe that he will be able to withstand the temptations of the flesh for the rest of his life?”
He was being cynical, Cordelia thought, and she replied hotly,
“Some men can find something better to do than to pursue, as the Neapolitans do, every pretty face they see!”
“Most Englishmen as it happens are more discriminating,” Mark Stanton smiled.
She knew that he was laughing at her and hated him for it.
She remembered how he teased her for having a freckled nose when she was a child and how there was always something about him that had made her feel small, insignificant and unsure of herself.
“You are to leave David alone,” she asserted angrily.
She knew even as she spoke that it was the wrong approach.
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