Talk:Hiram Burrows/@comment-99.230.242.195-20130515201454/@comment-6301921-20130516172819

...because they're not in a public relationship?

Also--though, obviously this isn't the case with Burrows and Lady Boyle--a mistress can be a woman who is taken care of by a man with the implication that the man will get sex from her in return. Like Coco Chanel and that rich French dude in her early years.