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. But if I stay away too long someone will steal it.'
'You run along. And thank you loads'. Hurry and save that tart.'
'Aren't you going to pay me?'
'Oh. What payment would you like?'
'Don't tease me!' She moved a few inches closer, turned her face up. I don't know much about girls (who does?) but some signals are large print. I took her by her shoulders, kissed both cheeks, hesitated just long enough to be certain that she was neither displeased nor surprised, then placed one right in the middle'. Her lips were full and
warm.
'Was that the payment you had in mind?'
'Yes, of course. But you can kiss better than that. You know you can.' She pouted her lower lip, then dropped her eyes.
'Brace. yourself.'
Yes, I can kiss lots better than that. Or could by the time we had used up that kiss. By letting Margrethe lead it and heartily cooperating in whatever way she seemed to think a better kiss should go I learned more about kissing in the next two minutes than I had learned in my entire life up to then.
My ears roared.
For a moment after we broke she held still in my arms and looked up at me most soberly. 'Alec,' she said softly, 'that's the best you've ever kissed me. Goodness. Now I'm going to run before I make you late for dinner.' She slipped out of my arms and left as she did everything, quickly.
I inspected myself in the mirror. No marks. A kiss that emphatic ought to leave marks
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