Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden.

“You could run to the farthest corners of the earth. There's no place you could …”

“Don't tell me you don't trust me, Lucinda. For the way I exercised such commend…”

“I was..sorry that you had been in prison camp..""A reassuring sentiment, coming…”

“So are you bisexual?” I had asked, and Todd had laughed at my insistence on lab…”