"As soon as I saw him in your presence, I knew it wouldn't do.

It'd be giving a piece of rare, delicate porcelain to a grizzly as a plaything." He was surprised at himself.

Now that he was face to face with a possibility of her adopting his own proposition, he disliked it intensely.

He looked at her; never had she seemed so alluring, so representative of what he called distinction.

At the very idea of such refinement at the mercy of the coarse and boisterous Craig, his blood boiled.