Jenny Fleming merely looked exasperated. ‘That young man,’ she said, ‘ought to be plucked out of his pride and impaled on a thornbush. He introduced me to someone as the Controller of the King’s Beam, last time we met.’ Which at least had the merit of making her daughter laugh, if a little wildly.
Dorothy DunnettAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: scottish
- Born: August 25, 1923
- Died: November 9, 2001
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