About Patrice Kindl: Patrice Kindl is an American novelist. She won the 1995 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, Children's Fiction, for the novel Owl in Love.
Let us agree that we are marrying so we can go on quarreling in the greatest comfort and convenience. Oh, please, Althea, look at me. Do say yes.
I love you, Althea—you are so beautiful,” murmured the young man into my ear. Well, I was willing enough. I looked up at him from under my eyelashes. “I love you too,” I confessed. I averted my gaze and added privately, “You are so rich.”...
