“Now you sound like a prude, which I know quite well you are not.” “Not around you anyway.” When she looked stricken, he added hastily, “And it has naught to do with some secret ‘harlotry’ in your makeup. It has far more to do with the fact that I can’t resist you. I’ve fought hard to do so for the past several months, and all it did was make me want you more.”
