If she needed anything? Juliana didn't know what he expected she might need from him.
"You sound as though we'd actually had an affair," she pointed out. If he'd taken her virtue perhaps there would be some obligation in the coming days — to marry her, to save her honor somehow, or even to help her obtain certain not- quite-legal services — but it wasn't as though there was any danger of her being in need of that sort of assistance.
Of course, it didn't really matter what she needed or even wanted. What mattered was what others thought she needed — in that respect, they might as well have had one.
"My family isn't the type to make demands," she added, awkwardly. "If that's what you were thinking."
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"You sound as though we'd actually had an affair," she pointed out. If he'd taken her virtue perhaps there would be some obligation in the coming days — to marry her, to save her honor somehow, or even to help her obtain certain not- quite-legal services — but it wasn't as though there was any danger of her being in need of that sort of assistance.
Of course, it didn't really matter what she needed or even wanted. What mattered was what others thought she needed — in that respect, they might as well have had one.
"My family isn't the type to make demands," she added, awkwardly. "If that's what you were thinking."
Prof. Marlowe Forfang

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