Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, #1)

by Elizabeth Peters

“God help the poor mummy who encounters you, Peabody,” he said bitterly. “We ought to supply it with a pistol, to even the odds.”

Ha

“It seems possible that we shall not live through the night,” he remarked. “I would hate to die without having…. Damnation! I will do it, even at the risk of surviving to face the consequences!” Whereupon he bent his head and kissed me full on the mouth.

Giggling