<div align="center"><strong>Lady Catherine Montrose</strong></div>"Chains first." Catherine spoke clearly and calmly "Do I look like an idiot?"<br/><br/>"Release me and I'll show you where she's hid the diamonds." Catherine could see the struggle going on in his mind, greed against common sense in almost perfect balance."There were rubies too. I should know they were mine before she stole them from me."<br/><br/>"You needn't worry, I could never out fight or out run a man like you. And afterwards, maybe I could think of another way to reward you." She raised an eybrow. Of course she didn't mean it, she'd run at the forst chance that she saw, and as for anything sexual with a common sailor, the thought repulsed her and yet excited her in a perverse way.<br/><br/><br/>