" Then why do you want to marry me?” she exploded.
“For the usual reasons,” he shot back.
“Such as?”
He slanted her a narrow look and made an obvious bid for his patience. “Such as the fact that we are very strongly attracted to each other, although I’ll admit a casual onlooker might not think so if he saw us bickering like this. "

― Jayne Ann Krentz , Full Bloom