Love in the Afternoon (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Beatrix Hathaway: Youngest of the Hathaways. Loves animals. Unmarried. Only Hathaway not married. Writes to Captain Christopher Phelan for a friend only to fall in love
• Captain Christopher Phelan: Officer who went away to fight in the Crimean War. Corresponded with Prudence but the letters were actually written by Beatrix.
• Leo Hathaway, Lord Ramsay: Reformed rake. Married to Catherine and has a quick wit. Oldest child and only son in the Hathaway family
• Amelia Hathaway Rohan: Worries about everyone. Married to Cam Rohan, a Romany. Has two sons. Second oldest Hathaway and oldest daughter.
• Cam Rohan: Amelia's husband who is a Romany. Very easy going and wealthy, he handles the investments for the Hathaway estate.
• Kev Merripen: Romany taken in by the Hathaway family when he was child. Married to Win and brother of Cam. Heir of an irish lord.
• Win Hathaway Merripen: Quiet and beautiful. Married to Kev. Middle child in the Hathaway family.
• Harry Rutledge: Poppy's husband. Owns the Rutledge hotel. Catherine's brother.
• Poppy Hathaway Rutledge: Married to Harry. Second youngest of the Hathaways.
• Catherine Hathaway: Married to Leo, former governess to Poppy and Beatrix, half sister of Harry
• Rye Rohan: Amelia and Cam's oldest son
• Alex Rohan: Amelia and Cam's youngest son
• Lord Annandale: Christopher's grandfather who controls the legacy of the Riverton estate
• Edward and Emmaline Hathaway: Leo and Catherine's twins
• Prudence Mercer: Friend of Beatrix who was corresponding with Christopher
• Audrey Phelan: Christopher's sister-in-law and friend of Beatrix

Quotes edit see section history

• “But Alex is hardly any fun. He can't talk or throw a ball. And he leaks.”

  Rye Rohan

• “I already know how to count to a hundred. And I'm sure I'll never need more than a hundred of anything.”

  Rye Rohan

• “Before you marry, you have to get shot by an arrow and fall in love, but I don't think the rest of it hurts as much as the beginning.”

  Rye Rohan

• “Now is the time when you dredge up one of your blasted Romany sayings. Something about roosters laying eggs, or pigs dancing in orchards. It's what you always do. Let's have it.”

  Leo Hathaway

• “The only thing Beatrix knows about being circumspect is how to spell it.”

  Leo Hathaway

• “He's a man, dear. Sustained thinking is very difficult for them.”

  Amelia Hathaway-Rohan

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• “The trick was forgetting about what she had lost . . . and learning to go on with what she had left.”

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• “When I give you away at the altar, Bea, I want you to remember something. I’m not really giving you away. I’m merely allowing him the chance to love you as much as the rest of us do.”

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• “He’s a man, dear,” Amelia explained kindly. “Sustained thinking is very difficult for them.” “As opposed to women,” Leo retorted, “who have the remarkable ability to make decisions without doing any thinking at all.”

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• “No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.

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• One could pick apart love, examine every filament of attraction, and still it would never be fully explained. It simply was.

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• “My love . . . I would choose the small sum of hours I’ve spent with you over a lifetime spent with another woman. You never needed to write that note, asking me to find you. I’ve wanted to find you my entire life. I don’t think there’s a man alive who could be all the things you deserve in a husband . . . but I beg you to let me try. Will you marry me?”

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• “Those of us who have a difficult time with godliness,” Amelia replied with a grin, “must settle for cleanliness.”

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• ‘Take too much time, and time will take you.’ ”

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• pyrrhic victory, as one could never put a price on each life that had been damaged or lost.

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• “soleate,” which refers to the shodding of a horse. Or “nidifice,” a nest.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• London
• Hampshire
• Ramsay House
• Ireland
• Stony Cross

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Married By Morning, and followed by A Hathaway Wedding.

Preceded by The Last Hellion, and followed by To Beguile a Beast.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Lisa Kleypas (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Awards edit see section history

• Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Awards (Finalist, 2010: Historical Romance of the Year)

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813.54

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Sexual content.

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Romance › Authors, A-Z › ( K ) › Kleypas, Lisa
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Historical
• Books › Romance › Historical

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Lisa Kleypas: Author's website

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