That had only disrupted her rather dreamy pleasure in a situation she had not experienced before.

All the men she had met in this wild country were rough and bold; most of them had wanted to marry her, and, failing that, they had persisted in amorous attentions not particularly flattering or honorable.

They were a bad lot.

And contact with them had dulled some of her sensibilities.

But this Jean Isbel had seemed a gentleman.