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Letitia had tried so hard to stay awake; not to miss a moment of his company. She said, her voice stiff with annoyance at herself, “I’m so very sorry. I tried to stay awake….” She stopped, aware that she hadn’t put it very well, and he laughed again.

“Would you have gone to sleep if Karel had been driving?” he asked.

“No, for he would never have given me the chance—you should have given me a poke.”

She wondered why he sighed as he put his arms around her. “This instead,” he said, and kissed her.

She stared up at him, her emotions churning around inside her so that she really had no sense at all. Then she stretched on tiptoe and kissed him back.

But when he did nothing about it, Letitia said in a hopeless voice, “Oh, Jason, goodbye,” and fled through the door and across the entrance hall.

She was appalled at her behavior and at the strength of her feelings when he had kissed her, but then no one had ever kissed her like that before….