Not Quite a Lady Quotes

“I mean to court you, yes,” he went on. “But in these
coming days I am determined as well to find a way to ease your heart.”
It took her a moment to answer, because the heart he spoke of was so full. “You’re a shockingly
good man,” she said at last. She mustered a smile. “Perhaps I’d better say yes and have done with it. I’
ve never had any trouble resisting men’s lures—at least not since that first time—but so much kindness is
beyond me.”
“No, I want a hearty yes,” he said. “No questions, no doubts. I am determined to make you
believe your life will be a desert—utterly unlivable without me.”
― Loretta Chase, Not Quite a Lady

“Your dress is perfectly clean,” he said. “Or are you brushing off the contamination? If so, you’re working on the wrong place. I never touched your skirts.”
“They touched your legs,” she said.
“You put your hand on my trouser front,” he said. “You don’t see me brushing it in that deranged manner.”
“It is not deranged!”
“What is it, then?”
“I am keeping my hands busy because I want to slap you.”
“That is patently unfair,” he said. “You started it.”
― Loretta Chase, Not Quite a Lady

“She broke off, glaring at him—no doubt because he must be grinning like an idiot. “What?” she said. “What?”
“On your head,” he said. “My drawers.”
She looked up.
“You have my drawers on your head,” he said. A pause.
Then, “Oh, that,” she said. “Yes. I do that sometimes. Wear drawers on my head. It’s one of those interesting habits one gets to know about the other person as one gets to know the other person.”
“I should not wear them outside if I were you,” he said.
“Oh, very well.” She sighed.”
― Loretta Chase, Not Quite a Lady

“I’m sure the gentlemen have had quite enough of decorations and flower arrangements and whose feelings will be hurt by what.”
“Gladly, Stepmama,” said Lady Charlotte. “Mr. Carsington, perhaps you would help me choose something to soothe the gentlemen’s delicate nerves.”
― Loretta Chase, Not Quite a Lady

“I asked you to come because I need your help.” ...
“Those last may be the most difficult four words I’ve ever uttered in my life,” he said. “I thought I would choke saying them.”
“I thought I’d faint, hearing them,” she said. “In my experience, men would rather have a limb amputated than admit they need help. And to seek it from a woman is completely unheard of.”
He smiled. “The pain is nearly unbearable.”
― Loretta Chase, Not Quite a Lady

“Her eyes widened. “You undid my frock!”
“No, I didn’t,” he said.
“Who else do you think could have done it?” she said, backing away into the shadows again. “It was fastened when I came in here. Do you think one of the horses did it?”
― Loretta Chase, Not Quite a Lady

“The episode,” he said. “You mean when I put my tongue down your throat and lifted your skirts and put my hand on your pudenda in that hardly-worth-mentioning way.”
“It would be good of you not to mention it,” she said.”
― Loretta Chase, Not Quite a Lady

“What have you done to my dairy?” he said. “What happened to the Black Hole of Calcutta I was saving for the setting of the Gothic horror play I was going to write one of these days? Where are all my beautiful spiders? Where are my gloomy corners, where ghoulies might lurk? What have you done with the six inches of dirt on the floor? That was good dirt. I was saving it.”
― Loretta Chase, Not Quite a Lady