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writing of
Sappho?”
    Now he felt like an idiot. Never had he
ever had to be on his guard as he needed to be with Emily. She was
quick. He would need to remind himself that she was not an ordinary
lady one met in society but an extremely thoughtful, intelligent
woman. He had underestimated her and he would not be able to get by
with just his opinion on poetry or the success of any given event.
“Genesis doesn't come out and explicitly state what the crimes of
the cities were.”
     
    * * *
     
    Emily admitted to herself he had a
point. “You are correct, yet anyone with even a minuscule amount of
intelligence would know.”
    “ That is beside the point.
Until you have reached an age of maturity, it is not truly
understood. I doubt most women were even aware of the
crime.”
    “ What makes it different
from what you have read in Greek history?” She hadn’t had an
interesting discussion, if not debate, with anyone since her father
died. Being with Dillon was invigorating.
    “ They are worlds apart.” He
threw his arms wide to emphasize his point. “Even I was embarrassed
reading about Lesbos.”
    His face even colored with the
admission and Emily was hard pressed not to giggle. “Which parts
were embarrassing?”
    Dillon opened his mouth to answer, but
stopped and looked at her. His eyes narrowed for a moment. “Oh no,
that we are not going to discuss.”
    Emily laughed and turned down another
trail, leaving him behind her. “What, without going into great
detail, do you find so offensive in my studies?”
    “ The immorality for one,”
Dillon called form behind.
    “ What else?”
    “ No young lady should read
such literature.”
    It was all she could do not to laugh
out loud. He was so serious in what he thought was proper reading
material when he hadn’t bothered to stop and think how improper it
was for the two of them to be strolling in the woods all alone. “It
is history, writing about an immoral people at an immoral
time.”
    “ It addresses the, ah,
physical pleasures.”
    “ Between men and women, and
same gender lovers?” Emily looked over her shoulder at him and
smiled.
    “ Yes. Now you understand.”
Dillon caught up to her and turned her to face him.
    “ I understand that you would
have all young ladies sheltered.”
    “ Why should you be
different?”
    Emily stepped around him and sighed.
“As I have said, it is simply a history. To leave out even the
smallest part of a country’s past could change how the entire
culture is viewed.”
    “ How would not knowing about
these people change how we understand Greece?”
    “ I agree that perhaps Lesbos
and Sappho is a bit obscure for the average person, but one should
not skip over anything we come across because it would change how
we understand their literature,” Emily answered in a serious,
instructive tone. “How could we ever understand Napoleon if we
didn’t know about the Revolution? There would be a gap in
understanding. One book would end with a King Louis and Marie
Antoinette on the throne. The next would begin with Napoleon.
Historians, years from now, would wonder what happened that the
king no longer ruled.”
    “ It’s not the same at all.
They were not immoral and that bit of history is important. I don’t
see how Greek literature is.”
    “ It wasn’t immoral to behead
part of the population because they were noble, including infants?
How many young minds can’t fall asleep at night worrying about very
real monsters taking control of their own country?”
    “ That was France, this is
England.”
    “ The French nobles believed
they were safe once upon a time,” Emily argued.
    “ Touché.” Dillon nodded his
head. “However, we are discussing morality, not
morbidity.”
    “ You are correct.” Emily
nodded her head. “So, why don’t you explain why you still find me
knowing such history offensive to you?”
    “ I don’t find it offensive.
Do you even understand everything you read?”
    Emily turned down