Turner let his face fell into his hands. "I'm never going to touch her again", he moaned. "He's never going to touch me again!" they heard Miranda roar."Well,it doesn't look like you'll have much argument from your wife on that point", Olivia chirped.

It was the one dream he'd never permitted himself to consider.

Love was the best present of all.

Mother,” Hyacinth said with a great show of solicitude, “you know I love you dearly—” “Why is it,” Violet pondered, “that I have come to expect nothing good when I hear a sentence beginning in that manner?

I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves Downton Abbey will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.

She glared at him. "I'm not asking you to apologize." "Well, that's a relief.I doubt I could find the words.

But Hyacinth Bridgerton, who at ten should have known the least about kisses of anyone, just blinked thoughtfully, and said, " I think it's nice. If they're laughing now, they'll probably be laughing forever.