Dreadful

by Caitlin Rozakis

alembic.

fewmets

saturnine,

codpiece.

obsequious

Majordomo?

He was riding a tiger, it seemed, with no way off.

He wondered which had come first, the conviction that women would treat him with disdain or his apparent determination to treat them like they would before they could get that far.

No one stumbled on furniture that appalling by accident.

trews.

hauteur

insouciance.

harridan;