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“Such a sharp tongue you possess, Katharine. No soft and gentle wife will you be, I vow.”
Оглавление“No wife will I be. I will not wed you!”
“I will give you a choice. You may don the wedding gown I have brought—”Senet nodded at the heap she had thrown to the floor “—or you may be married as you are, in your chemise.”
“You are deaf, dumb, blind and senseless!”she shouted furiously, her hands balling into fists at her sides. “I will not wed you!”
“I give you the span of a minute to make your decision.”
“You, a knight of the realm? You would not parade any woman before her own people so nearly undressed. And certainly not the woman you mean to have as a wife,”she said with disdain.
“Nay, I would not subject you to such a humiliation, but you are the one who will conclude the outcome.”
