“I wondered if there were any rooms in all of Thorne Abbey that wouldn't leave me gawking in wonder at the doorway.”

“She sounded so bright and businesslike that I wondered if I had hallucinated the part where she basically told us we were all going to die.”

“I wondered if there were ever times when Dad didn't sound like he escaped from a Jane Austen novel.”

“All right then, Daisy and I will have our usual."I wondered what that might be. Evil Juice? Some kind of demonic energy drink?”

“Well,if there's nothing else you ladies need in the library, Sophie, would you care to accompany me on a walk about the grounds?"I wondered if there were ever times when Dad didn't sound like he'd just escaped from a Jane Austen novel.”

“I wondered if they had rehearsed this weird three-way-talking thing they had going on. I imagined them sitting in a circle in their dorm room, brushing their hair and saying, "Okay, so I'll say we feel bad, and then you'll say that your hot boyfriend thinks she's pathetic.”

“Then, like I wasn't thrown enough, Cal leaned down and picked up a potted African violet on the low table next to the sofa and brought it over to me. For a second, I wondered if this was his socially awkward way of trying to give me flowers.”