"Oh of course, that's all a very awkward affair in your time isn't it? Where I'm from it's widely accepted, and it's most definitely legal. Most people here seem to be of an open mind about all that, so I wouldn't worry about any ridicule in this place."

Lucy thought how terrible it must be to live in such a closed minded age. She new that the society she'd been brought up in, amongst aristocrats, royalty, and MPs, had been oppressive enough, but at least she knew there was a world out there which was so much more bohemian, and in her earlier life she'd escaped to it on many occassions. But poor Leonardo was less lucky.