“You honor friends.” James was there to escort her and Mother to the ball.“Really, Anne,” Lady Stroud said, “your success this season depend... on your family and the associations they have built. ‘Lady Anne’ will be engaged, but it is ‘Stroud’s daughter’ and ‘Dorwich’s sister’ who gets invited to balls where you can meet the bachelors. James is willing to use his connections and reputation to aid your debut; you should not object to honoring his connections. There will be fewer men there than at. Can we win anything? I dunno. Last time I went to one of these things, some of those bands had been immersed in Cajun music since birth. They played the old standards and some new stuff equally well. Matter of fact, one of the other bands was a bunch of Dan 1.0's cousins. Dan 1.0 says they're a step up from a garage band.We're at least that good. It's just that when the judges look at our roster, they see a Granger. One. Richards? Maybe that morphed from the Cajun 'Richard' which is pronounced. And my dear, I do not like the lipstick stains you left on the cover.Maybe I will punish you for that later."I watched her sit back down, crossed her legs and continued reading. Nowand then she glanced at me as I showed pain in the position I was in butto no avail for her. After the hour of being tied up, she untied me butkept the magazine gag on me."Lisa dear, go up to your room, change into your black silk pajamas,leave all your jewelry on and your heels and come back down. You have. I couldn't believe it, didn't want to believe it, the fact that my cute little sister, the one I helped to walk when she was a baby, to talk, and all that, was going to get fucked by an idiot that I didn't know!It might be normal if you see it from an external point of view, but not for me, she was the treasure of the house! everyone trying to take care of her.At first I wanted to ask her, and tell her that I wasn't going to allow it at all, but then it made me really really horny, after all.