Alice gets a little physical

"Oh my, Captain Simmons," Alice murmurs. She draws close to him, nearly touching, and avoids eye contact as her hand drifts down from his shoulder, brushing his hand. "It looks like you already need the services of a girl like Deborah."

"Miss Foxhaven, I..." Simmons's breathing has quickened. Alice glances up at him, smiles coyly, and shakes her head.

"Shhhh. No bond girls handy, unfortunately. What...a...shame. I am sorry, Captain." Slowly, she drifts her hand inward, grazing his crotch. Simmons gasps, and a jolt like electricity courses through Alice's body, as she brushes his stiffened member through his pants. She just lets her fingers play over it lightly, feeling the outline of this not-ungenerous, hardened part of the man's anatomy. What fun it would be to play with...and I love the control it gives me over him. Listen to him - he's struggling even to breathe! Men are such simple creatures. Alice's pulse is quickening, too, and she licks her lips in anticipation as she starts to flatten her hand to grasp Simmons's cock more firmly...

"Ahem," a firm, reedy voice says from their left.

Alice gasps and steps back from Simmons as though burned, while Simmons jumps and whirls toward the intruder. Cheeks burning, Alice turns to see a well-dressed man in his late 30s with sandy hair, looking at them with a raised eyebrow - clearly out for a stroll himself. For a second Alice can't place him, then she flushes as she realizes who he is, and drops a deep curtsy. "Lord Chattersworth! I apologize - I did not see you there." Simmons, slightly confused, follows suit with a bow.

"Clearly," Chattersworth says, looking amused. Alice feels a bit dizzy with terror: Chattersworth is one of the few old-line nobility who still maintains a house in this county, though she hasn't seen him here in person in several years. It's disastrous to have been found in such a situation by him! As she straightens, he glances between the two of them. "I do not know you, sir - are you with the regiment?"

"Indeed, my lord," Simmons says formally. "Captain William Simmons, sir."

Chattersworth gives him a slow nod. "And you - one of the young Foxhaven girls, are you not?"

"Yes, sir," Alice murmurs. "Alice Foxhaven." She bobs another quick curtsy.

{if Alice < 75}As she straightens, Alice sees Lord Chattersworth smiling even more broadly, and his eyes sweep up and down her. She flushes an even deeper red as she realizes he's examining her in a rather forward way. Chattersworth, perhaps unconsciously, moistens his lips slightly. "Indeed," he says in that reedy voice of his. "I'd heard tales that you were...out in society, Miss Foxhaven."{else}Chattersworth nods. "I am pleased to see you again, Miss Foxhaven. Though you could...choose your companions more carefully."{endif}

"I am - well," Alice says{if Alice < 75} unsteadily{endif}. "You are back in the county now, my lord?"

"For some time, for some time. As long as I can find diversions here," Chattersworth says airily. He {if Alice < 75}glances up and down Alice's body again, and {endif}smirks slightly. "I must say, it seems most...indiscreet of you two to be conducting yourself thus, and completely blind to the outside world." He frowns.

Alice's heart races. Chattersworth's word against them could spell huge trouble. She doesn't know what kind of man he is...what might he do?