"You won't excite me," said the Duke's daughter, but clearly the Prince is rock hard.

A political marriage rumored throughout the palace drew many complaints from within its walls. Pamela, the duke's daughter, was peaceful in the best light, or naive about the world in the worst. From their first meeting, His Highness Gladys wore a dissatisfied expression throughout, but in his heart he was desperately eager. For appearances' sake, he managed to boast, "You would not excite me," but underneath he was intensely aroused. Pamela, having had no opportunity to understand men as a species, took the prince's words at face value and, during the nighttime duties announced as official business, could only watch his majesty's expression. But gradually, noticing the difference between herself and those around her, she began to harbor doubts about His Highness...