"I love you so!" he whispered. "I love you so's I could eat you, and yet I'm scared to touch you—that's how I love you, you exquisite baby thing!" He laughed and kissed my hands. "I'm plum crazy with happiness," he confessed. "You'll have to be sane for the two of us. What shall we do, sweetheart, what shall we do?"
"Walk on—and I'll explain things."
"And every time we come to a shadow I'll kiss you."
"Only big ones, then. Which way shall we go?"
"Towards the Houses of Parliament."
"Why?"
"I see a shadow," he said.
I have always been scared of shadows, but if all the murderers and thieves in the world nestled in the shadows that night, I did not know. I did not care.
I did not see.
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