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

“Miss Peyton,” Lillian Bowman asked, “what kind of man would be the ideal husban…”

“I thought I would spend the rest of my life searching for little reminders of y…”

“I've needed someone like you for a long time. Now that I have you, no one is go…”

“Love, she reflected bitterly, wasn't something you bargained with or negotiated…”