" Martin, you must,” Mr. Conroy said urgently, seizing his hand. “She won’t listen to anyone else, she never does. You can surely make her change her course before anything happens to her. Or if—if it is too late, she will need someone she can turn to, and who else is there she will trust in this but you or I? I am too damned old, too slow. Act for me, please. Bring our girl home. "

― K.J. Charles , Wanted, A Gentleman