Deliberately, he lowered his voice. "Well, I thought it was pleasant. But if you're now telling me it wasn't, that Gabriel reacted in that odious way ... "

"I never said that he did, I merely said I don't own Splendor. Would that I did. As for last night, pleasant is not the word she used to describe it."

"What did she use?"

"I can't say. It has to do with the awfulness of fornication. Then she threw a pot at my head."

"I see. Well, that's a pity when Lady ...