Olivia Atwater

...women who don’t understand personal boundaries always offend me,” Elias said finally. “Dim-witted people offend me even further.”
“Oh dear,” Dora said mildly. “That must be very difficult indeed.”

browbeat her way into an appointment

s it happens, I saw us both exactly as we are now, in our evening best. But I think that I was covered in blood, and that seems to me to be a sort of bad omen, at best.”