If you will kiss me
Ian’s method of dealing with Sir Francis Belhaven—who, his grandfather had discovered, was boasting that Elizabeth had spent several days with him—was less subtle and even more effective. Belhaven, Ia...
Ian, about Elizabeth Cameron. Her duenna said some things-That alarmingly pleasant yet distant smile returned to Ian’s face. I’ll spare you further conversation, Duncan. It’s over.The discussion or- o...
I've hurt you terribly my love, and I'll hunt you again during the next fifty years. And you are going to hurt me, Ian-never I hope as much as you are hurting me now. But if that's the way it has to b...
I'd like to shower and change clothes, she said. Would you mind waiting for me a half hour? The question seemed to amuse him. Not at all, he said with exaggerated formality. Please take all the time y...
I wanted to tell you, Elizabeth began in a rush, how very sorry I am to have dragged you here and subjected you to such humiliation. Mr. Thornton’s behavior was inexcusable, unforgivable.I daresay he...
I have an-odd ability-to read very quickly.Oh, Elizabeth replied, how lucky you are. I never heard of a talent like that.A lazy glamorous smile swept across his face, and he squeezed her hand. It’s no...
How do you expect to keep our seeing each other a secret? You've been all over the news here for years. People will recognize you wherever you go.I won't be recognized, but you will. You're America's...
Good secretaries are always in demand. Sinco's personnel office will probably call you eventually and offer you a job.I doubt it, Lauren said with an irrepressible smile. I'm afraid Mr. Weatherby, the...
God help him. He chortled. He doesn't realize he loves her. And even if he did, he wouldn't admitted it.-Dr. Whitticomb
Elizabeth’s concern that Ian might insult them, either intentionally or otherwise, soon gave way to admiration and then to helpless amusement as he sat for the next half-hour, charming them all with a...
Elizabeth, he said, trying not to laugh. At a wedding reception, the guests cannot leave until the bride and groom retire. If you look over there, you’ll notice my great-aunts are already nodding in t...
Elizabeth, we’re going to have to stop.Elizabeth’s swirling senses began to return to reality, slowly at first, and then with a sickening plummet. Passion gave way to fear and then to anguished shame...
Consider what an amoral, unprincipled cynicI am-think of all the improvements you could make to my character.
Clayton, she said softly, her voice threaded with tears, when Vanessa asked about my accomplishments tonight, I forgot to mention that I do have one. And it's--it's so splendid that it compensates for...
At the moment, however, she had an ever larger problem: what to do now, when two defenseless women were completely lost in the wilds of Scotland, at night, in the rain and cold.Shuffling footsteps sou...
At the end of the lane Elizabeth put down her side of the trunk and sank down wearily beside Lucinda upon its hard top, emotionally exhausted. A wayward chuckle bubbled up inside her, brought on by ex...
At five minutes to five,Jim walked into Mary's office, wearing his gray sweater and balancing four pieces of birthday cake on two plates. He put the plates down on Mary's empty desk and glanced at the...
As Ian’s father had once jokingly remarked of their gifted son, Ian us to raise him because he loves us, not because he thinks we’re smarter than he is. He already knows we aren’t, but he doesn’t wan...
And then come and join us in a toast. I'm about to whisk Lauren off to Las Vegas to get married. The plane is being refueled and checked out right now.Does Lauren know about this? Mary said, frowning....