‘Your highness,’ he said at last, ‘ will be kind to our treasure.’
Strange, my own father-in-law had struck something of the same note before I married Elspeth; it’s a polite way of suggesting you don’t make too much of a beast of yourself on the honeymoon.
Royal Flash, p.155, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1978.
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