Sublime

“Charlotte may not make it; her mother has forced her to take a carriage ride with the odious Viscount Mauler,” Fanny said crossly, closing the book. “He attempted to take liberties with her on their last outing, and she smacked him with her parasol. I am surprised he is still pursuing her.”

She was beautiful. Complex. Frustrating. He’d never met a woman who was so wholly and resolutely herself. What the devil was he going to do about her?

both of these characters want different things, resulting in a fun little dance where she pushes and he resists. CONFLICT!

"Charlotte Backson, who first was called Comtesse de la Fere, and afterwards Milady de Winter, Baroness of Sheffield."

Reina Mori had not yet realized that people had a maddening tendency to be precisely what they were in the most unpredictable, erratic way possible.