He grinned. “Not suitors, but idiots?” She caught his gaze with hers and was surprised to find true mirth in his eyes. “Surely you’re not going to hand me such a delicious piece of bait as that, my lord?” “And yet you did not take it,” he mused. Kate looked down to see if there was some way she might discreetly step on his foot again. “I have very thick boots, Miss Sheffield,” he said.
