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Enough was enough He knew that public inns were of necessity frequented bywell, by the public But surely even here a man was entitled to some privacy? At least in his own bedchamber?
‘Who,’ he said, in the arctic tone that normally caused minions to shake in their shoes, ‘let you into my room?’
‘Who let me into your room? Why, I let myself in, of course’ She smote her breast theatrically ‘Never have I been so shocked!’
‘Well, if you will invade a man’s chamber what can you expect?’
‘Oh!’ the wo the back of one hand across her brow ‘Was ever there such a villain? Truly, your soul must be stained black with depravity if you can treat the seduction of innocence with such levity!’
Seduction of innocence? The woman must be fifty if she was a day And she’d invaded his roo innocent about that
‘And as for you!’ The screeching woer moved to a point somewhere to his left side ‘Youyou trollop!’
Trollop? There was a trollop in his bed as well as a hysterical wo next to it?
A brief foray with his left foot confirs in his bed A slender pair of legs Belonging, he had to suppose, to the trollop in question
He frowned He wasn’t in the habit of taking trollops to his bed Nor any other kind of woman He always, but always, visited theirs So that he could retire once he’d reduced theht’s sleep at home In his own bed Where he heartily wished he was now For there wouldn’t be a strange woman in his bed if he’d stayed at ho to stand over hi
‘How could you repaylike this?’ The hysterical wo ‘After all I have done for you? All the sacrifices I have made?’
Her voice was rising higher and higher And getting louder and louder But even so there see his brain He couldn’t for the life of hi to work out why there was a woman in his bed He couldn’t believe he’d hired her Because he had never needed to hire a woman So how did she come to be here?
How, for that matter, did he come to be here?
And hoas he to work it out with that harpy shrieking at him?
He put his hands over his ears
‘You ingrate!’
No use He could still hear her