Shadow of Ashlydyat (Pocket Classics)

"[...]flashed with unmistakable admiration into those black ones as he talked to the lady: and the black eyes most certainly flashed admiration back again. Dangerous eyes were those of Charlotte Pain’s! And not altogether lovable. “Do you always keep your promises as you kept that one yesterday?” she was asking him. “I did not make a promise yesterday—that I remember. Had I made one[...]".