She told him that she knew his family and was ready to help him in any way possible.
She then proceeded to make it very obvious that, title or no title, she found him most attractive as a man.
She would, he was fully aware, be disappointed if he did not reciprocate her advances.
The Earl would have been completely inhuman if he had not been flattered by her attention and also indeed captivated by her charms.
She was very beautiful and different in every way from any of the women he had met and made love to in India.
To begin with, Lady Hester was extremely sophisticated.
She moved in the Society in London that had already defied all the pomposity and parochialism of Queen Victoria. It therefore concentrated on enjoying itself to the exclusion of everything else.
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