" She simply had to get Jeremy back.

Remembering everything she had been taught, she balanced herself on the slippery pebbles under the water and cast carefully and neatly towards Jeremy’s retreating back.

‘Caught ’im,’ thought Alice. Aloud, she called, ‘Sorry, Jeremy darling. I’m afraid I’ve hooked you.’ Now, in the romances that Alice read, Jeremy should have said something like, ‘You caught me a long time ago,’ and then walked slowly towards her and taken her in his powerful arms.

What he did say in fact was, ‘Silly bitch. There’s the whole loch to fish from. Come here and help me get this hook out. "

― M.C. Beaton