Jamie tips his head back and closes his eyes for a moment as the Chevalier's hand slides over his back.

"The dress was my idea," he admits. "She wanted to keep me in her retinue, but I'm a bit too old to be a page. She thought having a young man among her ladies would be... unseemly."

Honestly, Jamie thinks it would have been fine, especially if his proclivities were to become known at court. But the marquise had doubts, and so he'd found a way to assuage them so that he could be at Versailles. Being left behind was not an option.