"Not to over-intellectualize it, but I think people are very charmed by them," she said.
"It's been very charmed, but I'm not willing to rest on my laurels," she said.
And, to be honest, I'm very charmed by the image of freshman Deborah Treisman rushing out of her graduate seminar on alterity to make it in time for gamelan drumming.
The three books revolve around Russell and Corrine Calloway, an attractive couple whose lives appear to be very nearly charmed.
"We were a little nervous about the whole thing, but we were very much charmed by the material and wanted to do it," said Emily Madghachian, the artistic director of Kids Theater Workss!, who produced one of the two Dubai renditions after seeing the show at the 2009 International Thespian Festival in Nebraska.
It was very short on charm, with dark green walls and battered floors, but it was at least $200,000 less than other apartments that were 1,400 square feet, Ms. Marvald said.
The Marx Brothers' movies may have dated but, thanks to my dad, I started watching them when I was very young and I was charmed by their lunacy long before I'd realised that they were running amok in the distant 1930s.
Andrew Young, a lawyer who advises the rich, was very good on the charms of London often missed in dry analyses.
