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course.
    That might not be such a good
thing.
    When she kept her distance, she was
able to pretend that Benjamin was little more than a brother to her.   If he was her near constant companion?   She wasn't quite so certain that she could
keep up the lie.   Either to herself or
to him.

Chapter Three
     
    Julia was still worrying over the
situation the next morning when she went downstairs for breakfast.   For once, she was thankful that Nicholas had
gone riding in the early hours of the day.   That would give her time to collect herself, for she'd dreamt of Benjamin
the night before.   That wasn't unusual,
really.
    What was unusual was what they were
doing in her dream.   They were riding
through the fields of Seldon Park, the summer sun high overhead, laughing and
carrying on as they had as children.   But then they'd stopped, and, in her dream anyway, Benjamin had lifted
her down from her horse with practiced ease, and pulled her into his embrace,
kissing her deeply.   Even now, her heart
speeded up just thinking about it.
    As Julia had never been kissed, the
meeting of their lips was pure imagination on her part, or rather on the part
of her mind that conjured up such heated fantasies.   Still, she had awoken in a sweat, her breasts tingling and with a
slight ache between her legs.   Those
were real, physical reactions to her dream, and she knew precisely what they
meant - keeping her attraction to Benjamin hidden wasn't going to be as easy as
she'd hoped.
    Though she'd yet to complete a full
season, Julia had become something of a silent observer in the drawing rooms of
London.   Since she often hid in the
shadows because of her scars, she was also often in the unique position of
being able to overhear conversations that she knew were not always fit for a
young lady's ears.   She also knew a
great deal more about the physical attributes about the many men of the ton than was strictly proper, but then, gossipy women rarely noticed their
surroundings when they had a juicy tidbit to share, especially if it involved
the size of a man's cock.
    Julia knew that the tinglings were
the beginnings of sexual arousal, and, though she was still a virgin, she had
spent almost her entire life in the country.   What happened between creatures of the opposite sex, especially when the
need to mate overtook them, was not precisely a mystery.   Benjamin stirred those same feelings in her,
and she knew she would do well to tamp them down, bury them where no one would
see them.   However, she found that she
could not.   Nor did she want to.
    There was, of course, no hope, that
she made Benjamin feel the same way.   After all, he was a man in his prime, full of sexual prowess and
vitality.   She also knew that, at least
until recently, he'd had a string of mistresses, though he never kept one for
long, tiring of them easily.   Still, she
was also well aware that sometimes, when a man's needs went unfulfilled, any woman, even a scarred woman like her, would stir some feelings within him.   If she were able to do that?   Well, then it would be a pleasant memory she
could keep with her once she returned to the isolation of Seldon Park.
    It had also occurred to Julia that
morning that when she returned to the country, there would not be another
chance to make memories, at least not memories like the ones she'd made the
last several months.   There would be no
more balls or musicales, and, though she'd known that all along, that morning,
the truth had been driven home in a way it hadn't before.   For her, there would never be another
opportunity to live in society.   Those
memories that she had now would have to suffice until the day she died.
    So she'd done the only rational
thing possible and made a list in her mind of the things she'd like to do and
see before the season ended.   Riding in
Hyde Park in the early morning, just as the dawn was breaking was one the first
things on her list and probably the easiest to