The Dangerous Boxed Set: Dangerous Secrets, Dangerous Passion, and Dangerous Lover (The Dangerous Trilogy)

Dew lay on the gallery deck.

Far more important to her, however, was jakt. Shortly, thorby could go on through the alley and head home. When the two heavenly guests crossed the humble threshold, and bowed their heads to pass under the low door, the old man placed a seat, on which baucis, bustling and attentive, spread a cloth, and begged them to sit.

I found out that they had nothing of their own and had come to town upon some legal business.