Kathleen’s Reviews > A Tryst With Trouble > Status Update

Creepy peephole. Pages are running down. Will these star crossed lovers get some quality time together??? Don't cheat me, Everett.

Moses.

If only Barbara could give Ben half the slack she gives her sister, Helen: duplicitous, conniving, immature, heartless.

A stupid, self-absorbed fool. She takes great sensitive umbrage, and rages at him: "You don't want me! You've made your position perfectly clear. You've had your fun, and you've no more use for me than...than your father has for a woman!"
(Her thoughts follow thus): I felt stupid. Used and humiliated. Ben had done a masterful job of making an idiot of me...(Nope. You already were an idiot.)

Newgate

The suspects: JM, Fry, Helen, Lord Leonard

"Not to mention the way you insist on saying exactly what's on your mind. It's only natural that when the average man comes fact to face with you, he should lose his nerve."
"I don't seem to unnerve you."
"True, but then, I'm not the average man."

"Barbara, your sister may be pretty, but you're exciting. Stirring. Alluring. That body. That hair." He reached across to brush a stray lock from my face, then trailed one long finger down my cheek. "Not to mention that thrilling voice, and the way you insist on saying exactly what's on your mind..."

Now that's more like it. Nothing like a good honest fight / talk to clear the air. Meanwhile, cartoonist and blackmailer...

I seriously don't get why she's so mad at him. And she's far too quick to brush off his pain about the scandal rags