💋 The Widow From Bath Who Borrowed Husbands Mills & Swoon Short by Sarnia de la Maré
The Widow Who Borrowed Husbands In the polite districts of Bath there existed a woman whom respectable matrons referred to only in whispers. Mrs Arabella Devereaux. A widow of three years, excellent posture, alarming wit, and a reputation for borrowing husbands the way other ladies borrowed shawls. Not permanently, you understand. Just for an evening. Arabella herself considered the arrangement perfectly civilised. A husband, she reasoned, was a dreadful thing to own outright — expensive, noisy, and inclined to develop opinions. But borrowing one occasionally ? Delightful. Her system was admirably organised. Thursdays were reserved for supper companions. Saturdays for dancing partners. Sundays, naturally, for philosophical discussions about the nature of love, which most gentlemen agreed were best conducted near a sofa. The wives of Bath, however, were less appreciative of Arabella’s intellectual curiosity. “She is dangerous,” declared Mrs Hardwick at the Pump Room, clutching...