““Think you it is easy to get a well-known and beautiful woman alone, away from her husband, at so public a gathering? Think you that, in the company of dozens of guests and nearly as many gossipy servants, a man can just pull such a woman aside into a private closet? It would not be easy for any ordinary man--at least I suspect it would not. I cannot say how ordinary men go about their business.””
![“What had passed between them had been real and true and lived. Not like the silly infatuation she had felt for [him] when she was 16, or the foolish attraction she’d felt. Theirs had been a true love. Forged and built and earned.” quote by David Liss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/140/david-liss-15946_infatuation_what-had-passed-between-them-had-been-re_475583.jpg)
![“You have my word as a gentleman." [The other man remarks that he is not a gentleman and he retorts] "Then you have my word as a scoundrel, which, I know, opens up a rather confusing paradox that I have neither the time nor inclination to disentangle.” quote by David Liss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a80/david-liss-15946_language_you-have-my-word-as-a-gentleman-the-othe_486607.jpg)
