Ivy returned his direct gaze with a particularly innocent smile. “The great advantage,” she said, “of being thought silly, is that people forget and begin to think one might also be foolish. I may, Professor Lyall, be a trifle enthusiastic in my manner and dress, but I am no fool.
How ghastly for her,” said Alexia, driven beyond endurance into comment. “People actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.
Alexia wondered what it said about her character that Ivy had genuinely believed she would intentionally go climbing about the side of a floating dirigible.
This is madness. Oh, well.
Professor Lyall puffed out his cheeks in exasperation. It was like trying to have a conversation with a distracted and very soggy scone. Every time he pushed in one direction the earl either oozed or crumbled.
We realy must work on our communitcation. Perhaps if you were not so constantly intrested in other forms of intimacy, I might actually have access to the information I need to survive with my temper intact!” Alexia poked at him with a sharp finger. “More talk, less bed sport.
It’s no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.
I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.
I am rather fond of ladybugs. They are so delightfully hemispherical.
She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of her heretofore ubiquitous accessory.
Ah, Ivy, thought Alexia happily, spreading a verbal fog wherever she goes.
Ivy Hisselpenny was the unfortunate victim of circumstances that dictated she be only-just-pretty, only-just-wealthy, and possessed of a terrible propensity for wearing extremely silly hats.
A woman, even a married woman, cannot float without proper escort. It is simply not done.
His lordship can eat my fat –.
She was no closer to determining who might want her dead. There were just too many possibilities.
There are words to describe her, my dear, but one does not repeat them in polite company.
Stop playing verbal games with me, madam, or I shall go out into that ballroom, find your mother, and bring her here.
If there is gossip to be garnered, garner it. If there are new dress styles to be imitated, imitate them. If there are hearts to be broken, break them. That’s my girls.
Lyall understood a broken heart, but it could not be allowed to rumple perfectly good shirtwaists.
A vampire, like a lady, never reveals his true age.