“How fortunate I am, under the circumstances, to have a woman who understands me. Fear of Roarke?” he repeated. “You can do the fear of God thing, but see, you can’t see Him, and most people feel He’s not going to really—what is it—smite them. You, however, are flesh and blood, and would do a lot worse than a smite. You’re a lot scarier than God.” “I don’t know quite how to take that,” he said after a moment.
