Maybe it's a fond backward glance as the end of the century approaches.

"You didn't have to do this," she said with a fond glance at Ben.

He cast a fond glance at the woman in the crystal coffin, rested his hand on the window with a gentle touch.

She cast one more fond glance toward the moors and then gave brisk orders.

Robinton noticed the fond glances exchanged by the two and understood why she had taken him, despite the hold's isolation.

The two brothers ex- changed fond glances from time to time.

Jamie cast a fond glance at his new employee.

He cast a fond glance at his wife, who gave him a dimpled smile in return.

James took quick note of the fond glance the duke bestowed on his daughter before he turned back to Honoria.

"The Dons" is more a fond glance back over territory covered in his earlier books.