And so I beat him and beat him until he kissed me. And then I kept on beating him until he did it properly.

I can do one or the other. Lovemaking or thinking. But not both at the same time.

I want you," she said. "I told you so," he said.

I am not in love with you," she said. "It is an infatuation. I have heard of such derangements happening to elderly spinsters.

Let me explain something to you, he said. If you want to get something out of a man, dashing out his brains against a lamppost isn't the way to do it.

I'm no good at being good.

We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.