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Example: * Dearth and the Maiden
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Location: Kinds of action
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RecipeLocation: Characterization
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Index: Restrictions preventing inappropriate behavior
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Description: Our heroine, fallen among gentleman highwaymen, is restrained by her own modesty and seemliness.
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For: Z-Machine
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The following example, indebted to the late Georgette Heyer, is suggestive:
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{*}"Dearth and the Maiden"
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The Chequers Inn is a room. "The room is panelled and ceilinged in oak, with blue curtains to the windows and blue cushions on the high-backed settle by the fire."
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An oil painting is in the Inn. "An oil painting hangs upon one wall, a lascivious work from the Indies in which a very bendy, sloe-eyed courtesan - but no."
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A man called Mr Carr is in the Inn. "Standing bashfully aside is one Mr Carr, who we have been led to understand is by profession a Highwayman (yet whose visage oddly recalls Lord John Carstares, disgraced eldest son of the Earl of Wyncham)."
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Kissing Mr Carr is unmaidenly behaviour. Doing something to the painting is unmaidenly behaviour.
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Instead of unmaidenly behaviour in the Inn, say "How unmaidenly! Why, one might just as wantonly strip a rose of its petals, letting each fragrant leaf flutter slowly to the ground."
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Test me with "examine painting / take painting / kiss mr carr".
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