" This was too much for Pen. 'Well I think it was a ridiculous thing to have said.'

'You see, she knows nothing of the world, Pen,' he said earnestly. 'Then too, she is impulsive! Do you know, she always makes me think of a bird?'

'A goose I suppose,' said Pen somewhat tartly. "

― Georgette Heyer , The Corinthian