I am wicked in many ways.

“We talk a bit, until Tess is sufficiently calm, and then I take her upstairs an…”

“He may not have said the words, but I know my son. I saw the way he looked at y…”

“It was the winter after Mother died, and Mrs. Corbett and some of the Brother's…”

“You, in the moonlight, in this library, in this dress--" His eyes rove over me,…”