Temptation In Regency Society

‘Oh, can we, Mama?’ His eyes shone with excitement.

She kissed Archie’s cheek and then her mother’s. ‘Chop chop, then,’ she said with a smile.

There really was very little chance of something going wrong, she told herself again and again, but that stubborn feeling of unease sat right there in her stomach and refused to shift.

She would only later learn that the feeling was called instinct and that she should have listened to it.