“I have absolutely no intention of helping you.”
Now she was irritated. He’d been so polite and chatty, giving every indication that he was a gentleman, when all he was really doing was wasting her time.
“I am a lady in distress,” she snapped. “You refuse to help a lady in distress?”
“I refuse when that lady in distress is trying to go over a wall so she does not have to marry me.”
―
Shonda Rhimes,
Queen Charlotte