Georgette Heyer Giving Quotations

[...]if you talk any more flummery to me, Frederica, I shall give you one of my—er—icy set-downs!”(Alverstoke)

Do you know, I think that of all your idiosyncrasies that choke you give, when you are determined not to laugh, is the one that most enchants me.

I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me." "Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep.