Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)

by Elizabeth Peters

antiquarian.

But why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself!”

I reveled in every moment of it,

Nothing can be more infuriating than being forgiven over and over again.

It is the love of her that makes me strong.”