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A halting tongue does not necessarily mean a halting brain.”
gardener’s boy. It was horrible. Tongue, tongue, and more tongue!”
“So I want a goddamn croissant.” She looked genuinely shocked. “Where did you learn that kind of language?” From a crazy English hag who tried to shoot me.
“Americans are harder to scrape off than barnacles.”
“And before you ask,” Finn added in polite tones, “assault. Chucking annoying Americans in the Thames. Good day, ma’am.”
We are flowers who flourish in evil.”
“Doctors,” she said, “never warm their instruments. They don’t realize how cold the metal is on a woman’s parts.”
“If I were a man you’d be calling me patriotic for wishing to continue in my duty to my country.”
She finished as she had lived, a soldier.
“It’s what a man does when he likes a lass. Puts on a jacket. Puts a shine on his shoes. Asks her to dinner.”
“I’ll ring you tomorrow.” “Boys never call.” “Men call.”
“I can wheedle information out of anyone, René.
