Chapter 34 The Tongue Trick

I did not go to the dining-room until dinner-time. I knew that Leon would come looking for me if I did not appear. Just before dinner-time a message came from Leon asking me to wait for him in the dining-room. As soon as he returns to court, he will join me in the dining-room for dinner.

This time, instead of obeying, I hid in my bedroom. My sex counsellor, Miss Lola, tells me that men like compliant women, but that men can be pleasantly surprised and stimulated by the occasional female insubordination. Men like to be conquered, they like to be challenged. But men hate to lose, so in the game of love you have to let the man win, or at least feel like he has.

"Emily, are you in there?" Leon threw the door open, and when he saw that there was only one light in the room, and that I was not in bed. His next tone became anxious.

"Baby, where are you? Don't kid me!"

"I'm here!" I stepped out from behind the curtain in a sheer white gauze dress. A faint fragrance wafted through the room