Starting off with a complete aside, this book has no connection whatsoever to The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
At 33% of this book read, I’ve come across the word “conspiratorial” (or one of its derivatives) 3 times. Here are the contexts:
- In chapter 1: Impatient to unburden myself of the morning’s trauma, I try again to raise the issue of Anna, but my Samaritan silences me with a conspiratorial shake of the head.
- In chapter 6: There’s a crook in her smile, a slight twist of the lips that could easily be damning yet somehow comes across as conspiratorial.
- In chapter 19: My grimace causes Harrington to lean over conspiratorially, “I had the same reaction.”