”“I had no knowledge of such deliberations,” Thomas said, being quite surprised over this turn.“Yes, I asked your father for discretion in the...matter. Be that as it may, I had hoped for your return to be permanent so that I may groom you as my successor.”To say Thomas was flabbergasted would have been woefully inadequate.“Mr. Egerton, I am far too young for such an important task!”“Nonsense! The Navy finds you mature enough to captain a frigate. Believe me, the weight of responsibility. Unable to stop myself from wondering if she’d borrowed her panties too, I jumped into the shower and got to work on that dried cum. As I stood there, letting the hot water wash away the sins of the previous few days, I took stock of what had happened. I had cheated on my wife. Despite my guilt, in fact, because of it, I reasoned that if I could just make love to Melissa, get her back, it would smooth over everything I had done with Katie. Like painting over some terrible graffiti. Absurd logic,. I woke feeling pain as if a needle pricked my heart, but it was just a bad dream. I heard my hosts whispering. No words could be discerned but it sounded as if she was pleading with her man against something he was insisting on. When the whispering stopped, the bed creaked and I heard the rustle of clothes being taken off, more creaking, woman’s gasp followed by an unmistakable rhythm of copulating with the man on top. Afraid to make a move, I held my breath listening to the man’s grunting. She was going to lace the Rector’s evening bottle of port with a soporific, obtained from the local wise woman, which would leave him sleeping like the dead until well into the next morning.Tabitha, the cross-eyed maid, would be sent on an errand that would keep her away from the house for the night. As for Mrs Lawson; she always slept the sleep of the pure and innocent, and the drunk, aided by a bottle of rum. Susannah and I would then indulge ourselves in a frenzy of uninterrupted.