“But you’re smart, disarmingly romantic. Everything about you vexes and beguiles me. I think you’re bedeviled by your temper and your secrets and all the passions you’re terrified of. Furthermore, your face gives away everything, and I know you’re lying, Millie, when you say you believe any word Margaret has said against me. As for my suggestions, they were all promises that I fully plan to fulfill. I am a gentleman, Millie, but not always, and I certainly don’t intend to be one right now.”
