Someone to Watch Over Me

by Lisa Kleypas

“Females always seem to fear strangers, when it’s usually the men they know who do them harm.”

“You must have been a long-legged, gangly child.” “Like a monkey on stilts,”

“May God spare us from women who think they know better.”

“If I didn’t have backbone, I wouldn’t be here,”

most of the women I see who claim to be inherently cold-natured have in reality been mishandled by husbands or lovers.”