you going to do with her?
what will she say when she finds out?" I asked.

Camille did not know. The girl would find out, and then she must excuse
herself as well as she could, would say it was better, and jollier, and
more money making than to make dresses. Besides, the girl could not help
herself, and would have to make the best of it.

When was I to have her? I asked. As soon as I could get her; there she
was, and I might try when and how I liked; help me more she could not,
she could not insist on Louise letting me; but no doubt she would in
time, no one else should have her.

I was not so sure of that. Camille was gay, and although I had for more
than a year excluded most men from the house, yet she did have other
men there, and I knew they would see the girl, might like her, might pay
Camille; all the remarks of the retired major came strongly before me,
and I thought I was going to be sold, and said so.

She replied that I was not; she would leave me with the girl when I
liked; if the girl spoke to her she would advise her to let me, but
would have nothing to do with influencing her beyond that; and when the
event came off, she meant to be out, so that Louise's friends could not
say anything. If she went gay it was no fault of hers, young women would
have it done to them, it was natural. That was the game she meant to
play.

I saw that I had paid her only for bringing a girl, and must take my
chance of getting into her; all she would do was to keep the coast
clear. I don't know what I really did expect Camille to do, but think
I imagined that she would have got the girl in bed with her some night,
let me get into bed with them, and helped to make her fuck, if she would
not. This was dissipated, I was to have the chance I should have had
with a servant in my mother's house, or less, for this girl I should not
see so often, and could not be sure she would be so well looked after.

So Camille went out, leaving me alone with the servant whenever I
wished. I expect she went with other men at houses of friends, and so
got her time paid for twice over, and made a good thing of it; perhaps
she thought, the longer this lasted the better it would be for her. I
think now that that was her game.

FINIS VOLUME ONE

VOLUME TWO

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.--Louise sapped.--Suspicions.--Lectures on virginity with live
illustrations.--Drugged for inspection.--Camille's hesitation.--Absents
herself.--The hous