I didn’t start managing you for at least another year.

Just so. It came to my attention earlier today that you had canceled the seventy-fifth annual Christmas Eve ball. I would have called upon you immediately, but I’m afraid a prior engagement tied my hands...

Was it your journal?” he pressed. He wondered if she kept a diary as well . . . and what she might write about him. He hoped something scandalous. He’d love to make it come...

As a lady of clocklike precision yourself, you may appreciate my schedule. I have kept strictly to it every day for the past decade. From eight in the morning to eight in the evening, I...

Twice daily! I try very hard not to run things in my sleep, nor whilst cleaning my teeth. Far too difficult to bark orders with tooth powder in one’s mouth.

That is precisely why I didn’t ask.

I cannot wait another moment to have you in my arms.

Because I don’t want you to think I have any reason for doing this other than because I wish to.

I did bring a bowl of water, in case you wished to blend with the masses.