"Confound you! That's what I get for giving you an opening to put me on my honour."
"It's more than you'd have got—or deserved—if you hadn't."
His lips barely failed to find her hand; Lucinda had drawn away in the nick of time.
"Don't go before you've answered my question, Lynn."
"Question?"
"What I'm to do about these unlucky young women?"
"Hoped you'd forgotten them."
"I can't."
"You've got too soft a heart, I'm afraid, Linda. I don't see why you always let it rule your head—except about me."
"Perhaps it's a good sign, though."