"Not only do I know it, I love it," he insisted, listening to her list of escapades with a certain sense of mirth about him- even giving her a smirky little look at her mention of the affair. "You're a scandal," he told her, with exaggerated shock at the very idea.
"All right. But come to me to read it. I have a terrible fear of traveling even down the stairs with the original," he admitted.