A Dangerous Man to Trust? Quotes

“When she looked up, he was still gazing at her. Serafina had felt eyes on her before when she had been out in society, and she had never appreciated the feeling. She always felt like a piece of mutton hanging in a shop window, the gentlemen peering through the glass, sizing her up, imagining how she might taste compared to some other piece of meat on offer that day. This was not that feeling.”
― Olivia Elliott, A Dangerous Man to Trust?

“But you must remember, Mr. Thornton, no choices are free choices for a lady. We are always compelled in one way or another.”
― Olivia Elliott, A Dangerous Man to Trust?

“Men, she knew, were not to be trusted. They had their courting face--all politeness, and bows, and compliments, and "May I have this dance?" And then they had the face they wore to stare down at their peas as they avoided the gaze of their wife across the dinner table. Worse still, she knew, she knew, that there were some very respectable, dignified, and exceedingly polite gentlemen who wore quite another face entirely behind closed doors. This was a cruel face of power wielded over another--a horse, a servant, even a wife.”
― Olivia Elliott, A Dangerous Man to Trust?