“Sleep, ladies. I will be your St. Florian." Tomaso”

“May I speak with his mother?""Of course,follow me."The butler didn't go far,stopping at the door to the dining room to announce loftily, "Lady St. John has arrived, madam."Rebecca heard a testy tone, from inside the room. "Are you blind, Charles? I'm sitting right here.""The new Lady St. John.”

“Never sleep with a lady only once, especially in the case of an older lady.-'Rhett ”

“To modernize their sleeping habits, [Peter the Great] declared, 'Ladies and gentlemen of the court caught sleeping with their boots on will be instantly decapitated.”

“The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.”

“Lord Nicholas St. John was their only hope, and she had been on the roof when he arrived, for heaven's sake. Ladies did not go traipsing about on rooftops.And certainly gentlemen did not frequent the homes of those ladies who did traipse about on roortops. It did not matter if the rooftop in question was in dire need of repair.Or that the lady in question had no choice.”