" What should I tell people if they ask about you? Before I could plead some kind of ignorance, but as your wife…”
She shouldn’t have to ask these things. It shouldn’t be a burden for her to bear. “Tell them I’d rather slit my own throat than associate with them.”
Rose looked horrified at the thought-so much so that Grey’s heart pinched. She really was adorable. “Or, you could tell them that you have thoroughly exhausted me in bed and I am unable to draw the strength needed to rouse myself.”
That brought a sparkle back into her eyes. “I rather fancy that. It would certainly set tongues wagging, wouldn’t it? "

― Kathryn Smith , When Seducing a Duke (Victorian Soap Opera, #1)