Amelia Peabody again

I remembered something Nefret once said. “Is it wrong to care so much about someone that nothing else matters?” In the last extremity, when a loved one is at risk, nothing else matters. Certainly nothing so abstract as justice. It is, after all, a concept defined by men.

A woman who would accept meekly the rudeness to which he had subjected her was not a woman I could admire.

Not many new words:

Insouciant

Interpolate

Postprandial libation (oh that's funny)