Miss Grantham gave a shriek. 'You have trifled with me!' she said, into the folds of her handkerchief. 'You promised me marriage, and now you mean to cast me off for Another!
Georgette HeyerThere is a worse tyranny than that of ill-treatment. It is the tyranny of tears, vapours, appeals to feelings of affection and of gratitude!
Georgette HeyerAnd donโt you say that it is very kind and obliging of him, sir, like Jessamy, because if you donโt like a person, you donโt wish to be obliged to him!
Georgette Heyer