Index Card on Rachel Ingalls

I try to piece out why I loved a Rachel Ingalls passage so much, particularly one that feels almost tossed off:

I love Ingalls's variation on the gothic-horror convention of not being able to leave a place you know you should absolutely leave ASAP, the icy humor in the heroine going, "Well, it'd be rude to. It'd make my boyfriend look rude to these strangers w/ their bathroom toads."