Brecon Stradling’s Reviews > The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 3 > Status Update

—Animorum Impulsu et coeca magnaque cupidine ducti.
JUV. SAT. X. 350.
By blind impulse of eager passion driven.

“Now, if you had written that in your diary of five years ago, I would know,” I replied.
His sideways glance was unsettling. “Wisdom would make as little reference to that whole affair as possible, Miss Lion.”

Were I a woman, I would say Islington has my heart. As I am not, what I will say is he is the most respectable male in the series.
Besides Tybalt.
And maybe Roland.
And Nigel Hawkes, of course.

“He sounds like an avenging angel.”

-Arabella, on the topic of Niall Pierce.

“Agnes wanted to tell me a joke. A joke!
I stood patiently as she prepared herself and asked the question.
‘What do you call a woman without a hat?’
After some attempt, I said, ‘I’ve no idea. What?’ Then, as she was about to respond, her face went blank.
‘Miss Lion!’ She clapped her hands over her mouth. ‘I’ve forgotten!’“

Agnes has my entire heart; I love her to bits

“When one dances with a fiend, one finds toes are stepped on.”

I BEGIN AGAIN, TO READ THE JOURNALS, and what better thana moment between Emma and Pierce when making the Salon into a Studio?

“when I was about to propose we each take an end and go slowly, he bent down, raised the door enough to slip his left hand beneath and, standing, lifted it with far more ease than I had been capable.

‘Lead on, Miss Lion.’
So I did.”

Despite mild dislike of him he is a masculine man