Death and Damnation Book 2 of Poacher s ProgressChapter 3 Marlow
The Swan Inn turned out to be a flea infested midden of a place, so I swiftly returned downstream to Maidenhead and put up at The Bear, a well-known and hospitable coaching inn. I recalled that it was at Maidenhead that Susannah Procter had lost her maidenhead, and I wondered if she and Gethsemane Goosepath, her husband's Welsh curate, were still taking their 'nature walks'. I confess I felt envious of the curate, and would welcome being able to revisit Susannah's silken-smooth, soft,...