"The men's eyebrows were raised quizzically as neither had heard of the demise of the Marquis. Cerise shook their hand and stepped back to offer the e...xplanation,"He was as drunk as a Lord, and slipped coming down the steps from a male brothel. Broke his neck; died instantly. Please, no condolences; you never met the man and I'm not sorry. The only good thing that came out of my so-called marriage was this one," nodding at Erin, "and Dorian; and on that note, Aggy, its about time you met your. I didn’t know what the margin of error was, I wasn’t prepared to assume anything at the moment. ‘Thanks, driver, sorry I don’t know your name?’ ‘Daniel, Miss, most of my friends call me Dan or Danny.’ ‘It’s Mrs rather than Miss, Danny, and you can call me Susan if you like, I prefer informality.’ I understood that. She’d clearly been very informal with her previous driver. At least she hadn’t asked me for my telephone number yet. Perhaps I was too old for her, only being about twenty years. Lady Blackthwaite's eye sometimes lingered on me, but I figured she wasadmiring the old-fashioned English maid's uniform she made me wear, notme.I was happy to leave well enough alone, but one evening a somewhatinebriated Lady Blackthwaite summoned me to her bedchamber - she and hislordship slept separately - and, to my great embarrassment, started totalk about sex."Lisa, have you had any physical encounters with my husband?"Why was she asking? "What do you mean, my lady?" Has he taken any. The next step was to get one of thecompanies investigators to take a closer, more personal, look at thetarget. The investigator would submit a report with a recommendation asto whether the final stage of the recruitment process should be startedor not. The evaluation was based on whether the investigator felt thatthe target would be embarrassed enough about their kink that they wouldwant it hidden from their friends, family and work colleagues therebymaking them ideal blackmail targets.If the.