<strong>"Oh, have I ruined you utterly for the men in your life?  Such a pity!  Brutish, clumsy, ungentle fools, the lot of them..."</strong><br/><br/>Mellisande laughs softly.<br/><br/><strong>"Yet as untouched as you were, I should think you willl not feel the loss too much, if and when I let you go back out into the world.  Or, as the case may be, when you are rescued by some fool who will think himself deserving of your charms."</strong>