The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love (Love's Academic, #1)

by India Holton

Her plain brown coat, accompanied by a small hat, gloves, and air of cultivated intelligence, triggered fear in any man who glanced her way: one catcall, and she might educate them.

Beth found herself driven to the verge of frowning. Why people—?! (That was the full extent of the sentence. Extroverts need not trouble themselves asking for an explanation.)

They smiled with the particular satisfaction of men who have paid someone below minimum wage for excellent results.