Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)

by Elizabeth Peters

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 could not endure a man who would let himself be ruled by me, and I would not endure a man who tried to rule me.

“Peabody, you may as well hear the truth. I am mad about you! Since the day you walked into my tomb and started ordering us all about, I have known you were the only woman for me.