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Rose watched perplexed as Pembridge shrugged out of his coat and slowly rolled up the sleeves of his white shirt, an expensive one, made of fine lawn. Men around here didn’t have such shirts except perhaps a lucky few who saved them for church. Surely he didn’t mean to work in it? If not, what did he mean to do?

A horrible thought came to her. Did he mean to spank her? She hadn’t been spanked since she was four, and she’d deserved it for talking back to the minister. You deserve it now, a little voice prompted. You never did know when to keep your thoughts to yourself.

Pembridge stepped towards her and she instinctively backed away, although a wicked thrill replaced her initial reaction at the prospect of a spanking. Her cheeks flushed at the image of her own naked buttocks on display across his lap.

He laid his jacket over a low limb of the tree; her eyes followed his every move. His hand tested the strength of the branch. “Good solid wood.”

Rose sucked in her breath. Dear lord, what was happening to her with all these heated, sordid thoughts? She hoped he didn’t have any inkling of the lust he was stirring in her beyond that which he already guessed at.