Status Updates From Scandal Bound

"My niece is an intelligent girl, Trent, but she ain't clairvoyant."

"Gor," a footman breathed behind them, "they mean to roust the Devil!"

"Gentlemen do not swear," she told him primly.

"I am a nobleman, my dear. Sometimes, there is a difference," he reminded her.

"You are longer of limb than I thought," he murmured appreciatively, and grinned.


Funny the things that I, as a reader, remember. This line has stuck with me for literal decades.

I think reading Daughter of Fortune beforehand has tainted my reading experience of this. DoF was SO GOOD that this just doesn't seem to compare...