Rennie didn't quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters.

I see you've decided to take my advice after all, Richard." Lady Wendall's amused voice said from somewhere above and behind him. "Marrying your ward is *exactly* the sort of usual scandal I had in mind: I wonder it didn't occur to me before.

In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves.

He wasn't a medical doctor, just educated all the way up as far as you can get.

Mendanbar took a deep breath. You could stay here. At the castle, I mean. With me. This wasn't coming out at all the way he had wanted it to, but it was too late to stop now. He hurried on, As Queen of the Enchanted Forest, if you think you would like that. I would.

She probably enjoys cutting up everyone's happiness. Not to mention cutting up other parts of people; given her penchant for poisoning people and turning them into beech trees, I fail to see how she has reached thirty without leaving a trail of bodies behind her.

Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.