Folly tried to sink back inconspicuously into the soft leather seat and take stock. The results were unpromising.
Luke had gone to the trouble of virtually kidnapping Folly in order to spend a quiet weekend playing Scrabble
She was being carried at considerably over the legal speed-limit towards an unknown destination - and quite possibly what a Victorian heroine would have regarded as a ``fate worse than death'' since she could hardly imagine that Luke had gone to the trouble of virtually kidnapping her in order to spend a quiet weekend playing Scrabble.
Folly tried to sink back inconspicuously into the soft leather seat and take stock. The results were unpromising.</s>She was being carried at considerably over the legal speed-limit towards an unknown destination - and quite possibly what a Victorian heroine would have regarded as a ``fate worse than death'' since she could hardly imagine that Luke had gone to the trouble of virtually kidnapping her in order to spend a quiet weekend playing Scrabble.</s>Luke had gone to the trouble of virtually kidnapping Folly in order to spend a quiet weekend playing Scrabble