“This is most irregular, sir! Never in my fifty years of service have I seen the like. It is scandalous! It is unnatural! God, surely, is loath to see one of his favored children debase himself in such a manner! I should refuse you. I will refuse you!” Kit had glared at him implacably. “Will you now?” The bishop’s passion had fizzled as it occurred to him exactly who he was speaking to. “Erm … I would, that is, Your Highness, if you were any other man. But you are not. And so. Shall we, then?”
