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MARY: My wrath! When do I ever get wrathful?
CATHERINE: It’s your particular kind of wrath. You don’t shout—you just get precise and icy.
MARY: That’s not wrath. I don’t think that counts as wrath.
DIANA: It’s Mary wrath. Your particular kind, as Cat said. Not that I’m scared of it, mind you. But it’s worse than being shouted at.
MARY: I have no idea what either of you are talking about. Alice, am I ever wrathful?
ALICE: Well, yes, actually. If you don’t mind my saying so, miss. When you learned what the Order of the Golden Dawn had done to me and Mr. Holmes—
CATHERINE: Oh no, you don’t! We have chapters to go before you can talk about that. Really, not one of you has any idea of narrative timing.
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Theodora Goss (The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #3))