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“Making love to a virgin could have complications I’d prefer to avoid.”

Astra stared at him uncomprehendingly for a moment or two, and then went pink when she thought she saw what he was getting at. “I might get pregnant?” she questioned coolly, if a touch self-consciously.

“I was thinking more that, not knowing the rules, the way these things work, you might be the clinging type,” he corrected her.

“Clinging!” She was furious on the instant. “From gratitude, obviously,” she hurled at him.

She saw his lips twitch. Pleasantly he enlightened her. “You might want marriage.”

Marriage? Never! How dared he? “To you? Don’t flatter yourself, Baxendale.”

“You’re too splendid for words when you’re angry.”