but I suppose we must make the best of it."
He laughed as he said this, and coming closer and looking me over with a
smile which was at the same time passionate and proud, he whispered:
"Dare say we'll not find the time long until to-morrow morning. What do
_you_ think, my little beauty?"
Something in his voice rather than in his question made my heart beat,
and I could feel my face growing hot.
"Not taken off your things yet?" he said. "Come, let me help you."
I drew out my hat-pins and removed my hat. At the same moment my husband
removed my sables and cloak, and as he did so he put his arms about me,
and held me close to him.
I shuddered. I tried not to, but I could not help it. My husband laughed
again, and said:
"Not got over it yet, little woman? Perhaps that's only because you are
not quite used to me."
Still laughing he pulled me still closer to him, and putting one of his
hands under my chin he kissed me on the mouth.
It will be difficult and perhaps it will be ridiculous to say how my
husband's first kiss shocked me. My mouth felt parched, I had a sense of
intense disgust, and before I was quite aware of what I was doing I had
put up both hands to push him off.
"Come, come, this is going too far," he said, in a tone that was half
playful, half serious. "It was all very well in the automobile; but
here, in your own rooms, you know. . . ."
He broke off and laughed again, saying that if my modesty only meant
that nobody had ever kissed me before it made me all the more charming
for him.
I could not help feeling a little ashamed of my embarrassment, and
crossing in front of my husband I seated myself in a chair before the
fire. He looked after me with a smile that made my heart tremble, and
then, coming behind my chair, he put his arms about my shoulders and
kissed my neck.
A shiver ran through me. I felt as if I had suffered a kind of
indecency. I got up and changed my place. My husband watched me with the
look of a man who wanted to roar with la
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