Timeless

I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone.

Scotsmen, she had occasion to observe, often did have nice knees. Perhaps that was why they insisted upon kilts.

Ever since her trip with Alexia to Scotland, Mrs. Tunstell had rather a taste for foreign travel. Alexia blamed it on the kilts.

I suppose that saves us from having to determine what to do with a butler who goes around killing people. It certainly reflects badly upon our domestic staff. Still, I shall miss him. There was a man who knew how to brew a good cup of tea.

Biffy didn't like enigmas - they were out of fashion.

My Hallway" remarked Lord Akeldama,"Has never seen such lively action. And That, my sugarplums, is saying something!

She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of her heretofore ubiquitous accessory.

Biffy said, off the cuff, "Or we could find a replacement queen." "Volunteering for the position?" "Why, Professor, is that wittiness I detect?" "Only for you." "Charmer." Biffy tapped him on the arm playfully.

He dinna act like an Alpha." "He does in some areas.

Well, do be careful, my love. Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied.

Why, Mr. Biffy, you talk such scandal." "You wrong me, Madame Lefoux. I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone.

Oh, Major, you do so love to annoy, don't you?" "It is the stuff of living, my lady.

He also grew a very large and scruffy beard, with which she was far less delighted. "A man's virility is in his beard," he insisted. To which Alexia replied, "And a woman's is in her décolletage. Yet you don't see me allowing mine to get out of control, now do you?" "If wishes were balloons," was his only response.

Not Alec Weebs? Never!” Biffy was appreciatively shocked.

That was a remarkable display of whatnot.

Alexia was not a particularly musical person, and her husband, a noted opera singer in his human days, had once described her bath time warbling as those of a deranged badger.

Lyall's face went deadpan as he relayed the details, as those who are tortured or raped will become when they retell the pattern of abuse

He was awfully good at being aristocratic. Alexia, on the other hand, was only good at being autocratic. Not quite the same thing.

You wrong me, Madame Lefoux. I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone.” The

It was universally held among the drones that Lord Maccon had a particularly fine physique, and there had been quite the scuffle over who would be allowed to dress him in the evenings. After Floote assumed that role, it became a trickster's challenge to ascertain who among the boys could arrange such little incidences as would cause the London Alpha to bluster out into the hallway in the altogether of an afternoon.

Biffy was tolerably more disturbed by the fact that he had developed a cowlick while sleeping that would to lie flat no matter what he did.

...there were ladies who would travel miles in order to have a handsome young werewolf refuse to sell them a hat.

Are you certain they will manage without me?” “We will be back in only a few hours. How bad can it get?” “Don’t tempt fate, my love.

A man’s virility is in his beard,” he insisted.