Avery looked down his nose at her. “You know what Shakespeare said about curiosity, don’t you, Miss Luna?” Ana María opened her mouth to say she was familiar with the quote from Much Ado About Nothing that he referred to, but Fox’s rich tenor interrupted. “Shakespeare also said that curiosity is a sign of intelligence and a lively mind, did he not? ‘I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.’ ” Her palms grew clammy as her mouth went dry, and Ana María could only stare at him. Never would she have thought a man quoting an obscure line from Troilus and Cressida
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