"Now, while the money was certainly good, African customs are very strict about maintaining virginity before marriage, horribly so. She had planned to go back and find a nice husband to marry with her accumulated wealth, so she had naturally turned down such offers gently."
"However, my mother was not foolish. Turning them down would only make them more lustful and could lead to trouble, so she ended up compromising. She would satisfy her solicitors through other means but never go all the way."
"This had worked greatly for her... until the local governor who had been going through a rough divorce had decided to drink away his problems with the locals. Once he saw my mother, he also ended up soliciting her. He ended up accepting her counter-offer like the others that came before."
