" A man flirting with bankruptcy had no business thinking of a woman. Which of course hadn’t stopped him. And it was all the worse because, strange as it was to see her dressed up in manly clothes, there was no denying that the woman made a pair of britches look mighty fetching.
He’d stayed away from her, and when he couldn’t, he’d hid his interest in cool words. "

― Mary Connealy , Spitfire Sweetheart (Four Weddings and a Kiss)