If you’re not gratified, you should be,” he told her as he tucked the letter back in the breast pocket of his jacket. “All the other members of my staff were running around like panicked rabbits without you.”
“But not you, I am sure.”
“I was too astonished to panic.

“The human heart must be a strong and resilient thing, Daphne decided when she a…”

“There were times, however, when a man had to make a strategic retreat to win th…”

“You long to jump off, but you just can’t work up the nerve, so you tell yoursel…”

“A woman could be as beautiful as she felt herself to be.”