The Ungrateful Governess

“Children, children! The proprieties, please!” The dowager duchess’s voice was booming enough to set the pair into jolting apart. Yet it was a brightly cheerful voice.

course, you would readily do other things with me that would involve no condescension at all. They would merely be your rights as a gentleman. But conversing with me? In respectable company? So you try to discover if perhaps it is unexceptionable to do so, after all.

Your assumption that my impoverished background makes me therefore a woman of loose and low morals says a great deal about your own morality.