"Then I advise you to be mighty careful, for, I warn you, my blood is up." She made a face at him, albeit there was a quality of menace in his hold.

"Are you going to treat me as you have just treated Tessa ?" His teeth were clenched upon his lower lip.

"Don't be a little devil, Netta!" he said.
She snapped her fingers.

"Then don't you be a big fool, most noble Richard! It doesn't pay to bully a woman.

She can always get her own back one way or another.