Lady Margaret looked back at the other ladies in her gossip circle, a smug, satisfied smile on her face. Her scandalous story had them completely captivated.
"Doesn't that also mean," one of the girls said, her eyes wide, "that the Duke himself must have an unusual, and perhaps very low, taste in women?" They all giggled at the thought.
"No, not at all," Margaret replied, her tone now one of a worldly expert. "I think His Grace is just more naive than you would think. He is an honest man of business. He would not know how to handle a woman like her. If someone like Delia decides to seduce a man, it is game over for him. I am sure that is exactly what happened at her own house."
"Ohhh," another girl breathed, leaning in closer. "What happened? Tell us everything! How many of those stable boys did you see her seduce at once?"
"Well," Margaret began, ready to spin another, even more elaborate lie.
