Leave It to Amanda

Friendly Enemy

"Don't you think you had better introduce me to your aunt one of these days?" Clayton said.

"Well," .Amanda admitted, "I haven't told her about you."

He was silent for a long time, while he stood lost in thought. Then for the second time that day he surprised her. "You're good for me, Amanda. That steady, rock-bottom quality you have, that repose that irons out tensions. Of all things I anticipated that is the very last."

"What did you expect?"

"I thought," he said deliberately, "that I would find you a first-class, Grade A witch."