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you’re sure
he wouldn’t mind.”
    “ I promise.”
    She picked up two from the middle of
the stack and tucked them under her arm.
    “ Why don’t you leave them
here until it’s time to go? I don’t think carrying those tomes
would be comfortable.
    “ I suppose not.”
    “ I thought a stroll would be
a pleasant way to spend our day.”
    “ That would be
lovely.”
    Dillon escorted her out the front door
and turned toward a wooded area where he drew her onto a path. “I
am curious, Emily. Why Sappho?”
    “ Didn’t you find her work
interesting?” She looked up at him from the corner of her eye as if
she were gauging his reaction.
    “ I suppose it could be
described as such,” he hesitantly answered before he deiced to
switch tactics. He needed to know if there was a deeper interest in
the topic. “Does Ellings approve of this area of study?”
    Emily lowered her head, but he saw a
hint of a smile on her lips. “Do you mean does he approve of me
being exposed to the history of Lesbos and the writings of Sappho,
and what she alludes to?”
    Dillon cleared his throat, surprised by
her bluntness. “Ah, yes. Does he?”
    “ I don’t know.” She
shrugged. “His Grace has never censored my reading.”
    “ I can’t believe he would
approve.”
    “ It’s history.” She looked
up at him, a brilliant smile on her lips.
    “ True, but it isn’t at all
proper for a young lady.”
    “ Is that so?” she laughed,
and eyebrow arched. “Why exactly?”
    “ Some of the things I read
were shocking.” He hadn’t intended to sound so proper. His friends
in London wouldn’t even recognize him, Dillon was sure.
    “ Then I shouldn’t read the
Bible either, I suppose?”
    “ The two are worlds apart.”
Where was she going with this, and what right did he have to tell
her what was proper or not?
    “ Have you ever read the
Bible? In its entirety?” Emily asked with a tilt of her head and
smile upon her lips.
    Dillon was afraid he was at a
disadvantage. “Some, but not all.”
    “ Have you ever read Song of
Solomon?”
    “ Yes, I have.” At least she
picked a book he was familiar with. “That book is about love
between a husband and wife.” He paused and looked at her, narrowing
his eyes. The book was an expression of passionate love, but
broached in terms that no innocent young lady should understand.
“How much do you understand?”
    Emily laughed and shrugged her
shoulders without commenting one way or the other.
    Her cavalier attitude had Dillon
doubting Emily’s innocence. Was that the reason she couldn’t have a
season? No, he couldn’t believe that of her. Yet, she was the one
who insisted they meet secretly. Had she done this before? On the
other hand, was it really important? He wasn’t exactly an innocent
himself.
    “ Still, the two are entirely
different,” Dillon insisted.
    “ Very well, what of Genesis
then?”
    “ Adam and Eve? The two were
created for each other. There was no sin until Eve ate of the
fruit.”
    “ No,” Emily responded with a
mischievous smile. “Later in the book.”
    The historical information she could
refer to without hesitation was impressive.
    “ Sodom and Gomorrah? Are you
familiar with what happened to those two towns?”
    “ Yes, they were destroyed
for immorality.” Thank goodness she continued to pick portions of
the Bible he remembered.
    “ Do you know what the sin
was?”
    Dillon wondered if she was making a
fool of him or only having fun at his expense. He would find a way
to get back at her, somehow. “I believe it is self-explanatory.”
How did a young lady come to have knowledge of such things? He
doubted his mother knew the act of sodomy existed, or what it was.
Never would he have though to actually discuss the topic, with a
lady no less. He should have never questioned her in the first
place.
    “ Then I ask you, how is it
different? Why is reading of those instances in the Bible less
ladylike than studying the history of Lesbos or the