Disgraceful
He found it hard to explain it to her or to anyone out loud, so he simply handed the book to her.
"What is it?"
She glanced uncertainly at the notebook in his hand.
"My mother's diary."
She was puzzled, but she took the notebook anyway. Somehow she understood that it was too difficult for him to tell the tale in his own words.
Once she opened the first page, a neat, feminine script greeted her, and she was drawn in from the first sentence. Soon she was absorbed in the innermost thoughts of the former duchess, growing more and more curious about the little secret she'd mentioned repeatedly in the first few pages, until she encountered a passage that contained a graphic, explicit description o
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