And, she was able to tell herself with some satisfaction, the man in question - one Colin Bridgerton - felt precisely the same way. . . . . . . . His earth shook, his heart leaped, and Penelope knew without a doubt that his breath was taken away as well. For a good ten seconds. Falling off a horse tended to do that to a man.
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.