Miss Fitt, you know curiosity gets men killed."I grinned. "Then I daresay it's good I'm a woman.

I brandished my parasol at him like a rapier. "You, sir, are an abominable scalawag of a man, and I'll be damned if I let you threaten me.

And do all Hell-Bards waddle like a duck, or is it just you?

Oh, I know!" Safi clapped her hands, delighted by her own genius. "I shall call you Un-empressed.""Please," Vaness said coldly, "stop this immediately."Safi absolutely did not.