The Murder of Mr. Wickham (Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney #1)

by Claudia Gray

She’d been thinking about the ball with more and more interest,

I find it hard to believe someone would plan a ball mere days after a murder took place or that relations of the deceased could consider attending. Even if the disliked him they would still be in mournng. I think.

Fanny could see the sense of what he said. But the faint sensation of William’s cross against her breastbone reminded her of all the things they both wished to forget.

I'm so fed up with the Bertrams!

“Do not be impertinent.” Henry Tilney was in fact quite fond of impertinence—both his own and that of others, if phrased with enough justice and wit—but was stricter with his daughter in this regard.