The Spaniard's Pleasure. Margaret Mayo

get back to a subject close to both of our hearts…sex.’

      ‘I don’t believe you; you’re such a callous opportunist!’ she cried.

      ‘You didn’t want my sympathy. I’m only offering what you do want. Don’t you think it’s ever so slightly childish under the circumstances to pretend that we don’t both need to get this thing out our systems?’

      ‘Oh, my, the romance!’ she gushed sarcastically. ‘The old-fashioned charm that is so absent from modern life. Now I know why no woman can resist you.’ She threw him a look of total contempt and stalked out of the room.