“We're friends?” Miss Sparkler said.
“I'd like to think so. One can never have too many friends,” he said with an easy smile.
“If I may be frank, Mr. Fines?”
He nodded.
“You don't seem to lack for companionship. Particularly the female kind.”
–from Her Prodigal Passion, coming 4.7.14
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