" I cared,” he said behind her. “But as I said, we should never have been friends. Friendship is not possible between a marquess and the daughter of the family chef. That is the world we live in.” She forced herself to look at him over her shoulder. “No, Phillip. That’s the world you live in. "

― Laura Lee Guhrke , Secret Desires of a Gentleman (Girl Bachelors, #3)