Three Little Secrets Quotes

“Alasdair considered it. "Well, I would prefer she vanish from the face of the earth," he finally said. "I would prefer you to be able to marry again. But since that is not possible unless one of us gives her a shove down the well- and we'd have to look to Esmee for that; she's the only one with the mettle for it - then we must think of the child instead.”
― Liz Carlyle, Three Little Secrets

“And I am not old," she continued. "I am but thirty."
"Ah, but you will be thirty-one come the sixth of March," he said. "You certainly are not young."
"I believe we may have to return to the topic of my weight," she said tartly. "You will be more apt to see thirty-six that way.”
― Liz Carlyle, Three Little Secrets