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Look you," Pandora told him in a businesslike tone, "marriage is not on the table."Look you? Look you? Gabriel was simultaneously amused and outraged. Was she really speaking to him as if he were an errand boy?"I've never wanted to marry," Pandora continued. "Anyone who knows me will tell you that. When I was little, I never liked the stories about princesses waiting to be rescued. I never wished on falling stars, or pulled the petals off daisies while reciting 'he loves me, he loves me not.' At my brother's wedding, they handed out slivers of wedding cake to all the unmarried girls and said if we put it under our pillows, we would dream of our future husbands. I ate my cake instead. Every crumb. I've made plans for my life that don't involve becoming anyone's wife.""What plans?" Gabriel asked. How could a girl of her position, with her looks, make plans that didn't include the possibility of marriage?"That's none of your business," she told him smartly."Understood," Gabriel assured her. "There's just one thing I'd like to ask: What the bloody hell were you doing at the ball in the first place, if you don't want to marry?""Because I thought it would be only slightly less boring than staying at home.""Anyone as opposed to marriage as you claim to be has no business taking part in the Season.""Not every girl who attends a ball wants to be Cinderella.""If it's grouse season," Gabriel pointed out acidly, "and you're keeping company with a flock of grouse on a grouse-moor, it's a bit disingenuous to ask a sportsman to pretend you're not a grouse.""Is that how men think of it? No wonder I hate balls." Pandora looked scornful. "I'm so sorry for intruding on your happy hunting grounds.""I wasn't wife-hunting," he snapped. "I'm no more interested in marrying than you are.""Then why were you at the ball?""To see a fireworks display!"After a brief, electric silence, Pandora dropped her head swiftly. He saw her shoulders tremble, and for an alarming moment, he thought she had begun to cry. But then he heard a delicate snorting, snickering sound, and he realized she was... laughing?"Well," she muttered, "it seems you succeeded."Before Gabriel even realized what he was doing, he reached out to lift her chin with his fingers. She struggled to hold back her amusement, but it slipped out nonetheless. Droll, sneaky laughter, punctuated with vole-like squeaks, while sparks danced in her blue eyes like shy emerging stars. Her grin made him lightheaded.Damn it. ― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Spring

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