"Christopher Stasheff - Warlocks Heirs 01 - M'Lady Witch" - читать интересную книгу автора (Stasheff Christopher)

"Scared," Rod opined. "I would be, too, if a pretty girl had just rejected me flat out."


Cordelia turned to him, puzzled. "Why should this be?"


"Just a quirk of the male mind. We're sensitive about being told we don't matter."


Cordelia frowned. "But I did not."


"Sure-you just told him "no.' Right? No explanations, no excuses-nothing but a flat "no.' "


"There was more than that." For the fIrst time, a trace of guilt crept into Cordelia's expression.


Rod was silent, waiting-but Cordelia was silent, too, lost in recent memory, and mortified.


Finally, Gwen broke the silence. "Thou hast ever been quick and sharp of tongue, daughter."


"Oh, but I so rarely mean what I say in the heat of the moment!"


"Aye-'tis naught but the telling remark, the barbed retort, that matters, is't not? Yet hast thou thought of the hurt thy hasty words may do?"


"Surely he knows that rash words are not meant!"


"Alain? No," Rod said. "I don't think he knows anything of the kind. Very serious young man, that. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he thinks angry
words show how a person really feels."


"Oh, but he cannot!" Cordelia wrung her hands. "He cannot truly think that I meant what I said!"


"Are you sure you don't?"


Cordelia stilled, considering. Then she said, "He is somewhat pompous..."


"And insensitive," Rod agreed. "Are you sure he's right for you? Shouldn't you be going after a man with a bit more of a sense of fun?"