A Girl Without a Corset

On the eve of his departure for the continent, Lord Rhys Denham receives an unexpected and unwelcome visitor. His childhood friend Thea, disguised in boy's clothes, sneaks in to see him. She is fleeing an unwanted marriage to a man chosen by her father and demands that Rhys take her with him to Venice to her godmother.

Slightly drunk, Rhys is unable to refuse her, and only later does he realise that Thea is no longer his mischievous friend, but a very seductive woman. What's more, she demands that he satisfy her curiosity in certain intimate matters…