“I’ll send Robbie the barman, my lady.” The girl took the purse and scuttled away.

“Here, you’d better have this.” Petra unwrapped herself from the coverlet, passing it to him before she ripped open the tissue-papered package, shaking out the folds of a sturdy woolen dressing gown. “Not the height of fashion, but it’ll certainly do.” She pushed her arms into it and tied the girdle at her waist. “Oh, I feel almost human again. And I’m starving. Can we order dinner up here?”

“I might have an order of my own first,” Guy said, peeling off his sodden trousers and undergarments. He pulled back the bedcovers. “Get in. It’s playtime.” He patted the sheet, looking at her with narrowed eyes. “Must I fetch you, wife?”

“Well, that could be fun on another occasion,” Petra said, considering. “But not today.” She leaped onto the bed, untying her robe, flinging her arms wide. “Ravish me, my lord.”

“With the greatest of pleasure, my lady.”

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Chapter One

London, August 1902