"Society has never bothered much with logic," she sighed. "Living here at all is scandalous, and shocking, but it looks as though I am simply flouting convention. Unforgivable, terrible, but not nearly so bad as ..."
She searched for words. "Were I living here, alone, with an unmarried man, the implication would not be that I was daring or shocking. It would be that I were ... that we had ... an arrangement."
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Date: 2008-12-08 12:46 am (UTC)She searched for words. "Were I living here, alone, with an unmarried man, the implication would not be that I was daring or shocking. It would be that I were ... that we had ... an arrangement."
She could not say the word mistress.