“Had he forgotten all that had transpired between them in that other hidey-hole?”

“When she squeezed his arm and told him she had two pies in her buggy, he thought he'd died and gone to heaven.”

“I'd soon crawl down a rabid badger's hole as crawl into your bedroll.”

“Coyness wasn't the only thing Ardetta had been aggressive about and he'd had to summon up all his southern chivalry to turn her down gently. When he'd relented and obliged her with a kiss, she'd been on him like ugly on an ape. He'd narrowly escaped her clutches with his honor intact.”

“He'd seen her pale skin, glowing like a ripe peach in the flickering light of the kerosene lamps, and the sight had left him with a bad case of the horn colic.”

“He snorted and his long face informed her he was still as grumpy as a woodpecker with a headache.”

“He didn't mind facing the music in most cases, but he wasn't partial to the wedding march.”