When she got home her mother was with two men and they had all been drinking for some time. Ignoring the men she told her mother she was going straigh...t to her room to study and then shut herself in, locked and bolted her door.She got out her books and her laptop and did try to get some work done. But she could not concentrate for worrying about what was happening on the other side of the door. She was just thinking about going to bed when an argument broke out between her mother and the men.. She catches the dashing captain's eye and he walks over to make small talk with the girl.He thinks she's just a silly girl, but a flopsie he might just have a dalliance with, (he plans to seduce her...) but it turns out, she's a very clever girl... And, although he does not know this yet, not sexually innocent!!! There was a stable boy... And a friend of Her father’s... And her French piano tutor...Tonight, she’s being chaperoned by her aged aunt... Dame Agatha... Who likes a drink and is plied. He'd given her a beautiful and expensive gold necklace for her eighteenth birthday and she'd wished that she had the money to give him something equally special and valuable.He'd been home to visit his parents for his eighteenth birthday, and he'd returned just a few hours ago. He looked a little put out, because she'd pretended to forget all about his birthday. She hadn't mentioned it and neither had he. Now he burst into her room saying, "You're a tease, you know that?" You really think I'd. How long ago?" Ended about two years ago. Started about two years before that, more than one guy, but the last one was the worst." How bad?"Sophia reached into her pocketbook, and withdrew that picture. She handed it to Gwen. "Oh, about that bad."Gwen gasped. "Oh my sweet Jesus." She blinked, and handed the picture back to Sophia. "Sophia, you are one of the most put-together young ladies I have ever met. Recovery to the degree that you seem to have is very, very rare. I hate to do the shrink.