Sherwood Ring Quotes

“A gentleman can hardly continue to sit,' he explained, in his serenest and most level voice, 'when he asks a very remarkable young lady to do him the honor of marrying him. And - 'he somehow contrived to grin at me wickedly, 'I usually get what I want, Miss Grahame,' he added, and pitched over in a tangled heap on the floor.”
― Elizabeth Marie Pope, The Sherwood Ring: A Paranormal Romance About Colonial Ghosts, Spies, and Mystery for Children

“How did you ever happen to remember that I might be hungry? But of course you would. Will you mind very much if I run myself into serious difficulties now and again after we are married, just for the pleasure of seeing you rise to the occasion?”
― Elizabeth Marie Pope, The Sherwood Ring: A Paranormal Romance About Colonial Ghosts, Spies, and Mystery for Children