There were only so many ways a man‟s heart could break, and he had a feeling his couldn‟t survive another puncture.

Now I want you to listen to me," he said in a low voice, taking her chin in his hand and forcing her to look at him. "And listen carefully, because I'm only going to say this once. You are going to marry me before this week is out. Since you have conveniently run off to Scotland, we don't need a special license. You're just lucky I don't haul you off to a church right this instant. Get yourself a dress and get yourself some flowers, because, sweeetheart, you're getting yourself a new name.

Of course none of those men was suitable. Half were after your fortune, and as for the other half—well, you would have reduced them to tears within a month.” “Such tenderness for your youngest child,” Hyacinth muttered. “It quite undoes me.

It was a damned good thing men couldn’t have children. Gregory took no shame in admitting that the human race would have died out generations earlier.

Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Cousin‟s Wife. Moses must have forgotten to write that one down

I had to do something," she said. "I couldn't just sit and wait for life to happen to me any longer.

Just be quiet and accept the praise.