Author: Julia Quinn
Quotes of Author: Julia Quinn
It's very bad form to spy on one's host," he said, planting his hands on his hips and somehow managing to look both authoritative and relaxed at the same time."It was an accident," she grumbled."Oh, I believe you there," he said. "But even if you didn't intend to spy on me, the fact remains that when the opportunity arose, you took it.""Do you blame me?"He grinned. "Not at all. I would have done precisely the same thing."Her mouth fell open."Oh, don't pretend to be offended," he said."I'm not pretending."He leaned a bit closer. "To tell the truth, I'm quite flattered.""It was academic curiosity," she ground out. "I assure you."His smile grew sly. "So you're telling me that you would have spied upon any naked man you'd come across?""Of course not!""As I said," he drawled, leaning back against a tree, "I'm flattered.""Well, now that we have that settled," Sophie said with a sniff, "I'm going back to Your Cottage. book-quoteThen Elizabeth came, bearing a tray of cakes and sweets, and finally Harriet, who carried with her a small sheaf of paper-her current opus, Henry VIII and the Unicorn of Doom ."I'm not certain Frances is going to be appeased by an evil unicorn," Anne told her.Harriet looked up with one arched brow. "She did not specify that it must be a good unicorn."Anne grimaced. "You're going to have a battle on your hands, that's all I'm going to say on the matter."Harriet shrugged, then said, "I'm going to begin in act two. Act one is a complete disaster. I've had to rip it completely apart.""Because of the unicorn?""No," Harriet said with a grimace. "I got the order of the wives wrong. It's divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, widowed.""How cheerful."Harriet gave her a bit of a look, then said, "I switched one of the divorces with a beheading.""May I give you a bit of advice?" Anne asked.Harriet looked up."Don't ever let anyone hear you say that out ofcontext. book-quotejulia-quinndont-even-ask
