"I didn't have to see Jean-Claude's smile to know it was there. 'Oh, you are on your own with ma petite. She is my human servant, so declared before the council, but she answers to no one...She is the Executioner and has more vampire kills than any other human. She is a necromancer of such power that you have traveled halfway around the world to consult her. She is my human servant without a mark to hold her to me. She dates me without the aid of vampire glamour. Why should I not be pleased?'" Jean-Claude, Chapter 1, p. 2

"'Now, aren't you going to be late for your date with Monsieur Zeeman?'
'You're being awfully civilized about this,' I said.
'Tomorrow night you will be with me, ma petite. I would be a poor...sport to begrudge Richard his night.'
'You're usually a poor...