I am quite confident, Mr. Prewett, that you would never enable a young lady to take liberties with her virtue was what Bellona wished to say, but sour though she was, she could not bring the words to her lips. The other Mr. Prewett was his brother, after all, his twin, and while they were family now, after a fashion, Bellona did not know the gentleman well enough to so frankly disparage his kin.

"I expect that any qualities you share with your brother, Mr. Prewett," she settled on instead,"are positive in nature."