Sublime

“Well, we’ve always known he was a fiend,” Amelia said in a reasonable tone, coming to stand at the bedside. “How dare you, Merripen?… Coming into an unsuspecting girl’s room and feeding her toast.”

And if it was for any sort of a fine handsome woman, but for a little fistful of a woman like Kitty Keary, that’s not four feet high hardly, and not three teeth in her head unless she got new ones!