He has been mad for you these many months, ever since you prodded him in the nether regions with a hedgehog.

Lady Maccon stopped suddenly. Her husband got four long strides ahead before he realized she had paused. She was starring thoughtfully up into the aether, twirling the deadly parasol about her head.'I have just remembered something,' Alexia said when he returned to her side.'Oh, that explains everything. How foolish of me to think you could walk and remember at the same time.

The Earl of Woolsey was indeed completely nude. He did not seem particularly perturbed by this fact, but Miss Tarabotti felt the sudden need to close her eyes tight and think about asparagus or something equally mundane.