" Does your countess cry a lot?” Nick asked St. Just as they moved in to dinner. “Poor Leah cries at the sight of a kitten, a puppy, or a foal. Of course, this necessitates that I comfort her, which I am all too willing to do.” “One would think she’d cry at the sight of you,” Val said. “Oh, she does.” Nick’s teeth gleamed, and his blue eyes sparkled. “With rapture.” “Nicholas,” Abby chided, but Nick only grinned more broadly. “Pass "

― Grace Burrowes , The Virtuoso (Duke's Obsession, #3; Windham, #3)