I’ll be your friend in daylight. I’ll treat you as a comrade in every gas-lit ballroom. But alone, under moonlight, I’ll not pretend that I want you for anything but mine.

“Mrs Farleigh," he called. She stopped and gave him her shoulder, not quite meet…”

“Ash Turner seduced her with the promise of her own self.”

“If people want you to stop talking, or to stop dressing the way you do, or to c…”

“The marquess held the weapon out, as formally as if he were passing a sword.Sob…”