Ambush or Adore (Delightfully Deadly, #3)

by Gail Carriger

Pillover was assigned to the dining table with Sophronia for the duration. She was a good egg whom he liked, insofar as one could like a girl and think of her as in any way eggish.

Egg

Ordinarily Pillover would have been disposed to think of this as feminine hysteria, but not with Sophronia. Not that he was inclined to argue or disobey her instructions – no point, Sophronia would win regardless. She was like that. Girls were, frankly, in general like that.

Girls