\u2018How dare you.\u2019 Lady Lillian spat the words at the Earl of Mallory and gave him her fiercest glare. \u2018You shouldn\u2019t have interfered like that. If those gentlemen recognize you, they might work out who I am, which is exactly what you wanted to avoid.\u2019 She huffed. \u2018Besides, I instigated that kiss.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Why would you do such a brazen thing? Risk your good name and your life in such an impulsive manner.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She sighed, all her anger deflating. \u2018My good name evaporated when Geoffrey\u2019s sexual preferences became known after his death. The men he mixed with kept his secrets when he was alive, and possibly even liked whips and ropes as much as Geoffrey, but dead men can\u2019t reveal their secrets so they felt safe to expose him, while distancing themselves from those activities.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018But why would they risk incriminating themselves?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018I learned later that two girls had died, a day apart and in different areas of London, but both had been physically tormented and their bodies were left in parks in Mayfair. Government officials were sent to investigate after a minister\u2019s wife and children stumbled upon one of them, and there was a push to find the culprit and to close down any houses of ill repute in respectable neighborhoods.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018I read about the murders, but surely they don\u2019t think Geoffrey had anything to do with that. He wasn\u2019t the most respected man and nor was he a decent husband, but I cannot imagine him killing women.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018The enquiry cleared Geoffrey, but as those houses were places that Geoffrey and his cohorts visited, his so-called friends decided to toss out Geoffrey\u2019s name and draw the scrutiny away from them.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brent took her hands and shook them lightly. \u2018Why didn\u2019t you tell me?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She shrugged. \u2018Geoffrey was dead and I simply wanted to forget all the sordidness and start afresh.\u2019 She waved a hand at the guests, whose conversations had become bawdier and louder the more punch was consumed and, as inhibitions were drowned in liquor, both women and men had stripped away clothing and were well on their way to public sex. \u2018Here, I can reclaim myself, because everyone indulges in excesses and they don\u2019t judge each other badly because they\u2019ve let down their guards for an evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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