"But you kept on—and you kissed my eyes and throat——"
"You wouldn't care what I did if you loved me."
"But they were unusual places to be kissed. I was scared. Did you think me ridiculous? It was rather startling, you know. It was such a complete novelty."
She admitted it so naïvely that he laughed in spite of his chagrin.
"Steve," he said, "I don't know what to do about it. I'm falling more deeply in love with you every moment; and you are merely kind and sweet and friendly about it——"
"I'm intensely interested!" she said.
"Interested," he repeated; "yes, that describes it."
"A girl couldn't help being interested when a man she had always adored as a brother suddenly takes her into his arms and kisses her in unusual places," she said, "—and does it a great number of times——"
"Probably you kept count," he said with boyish sarcasm.
She laughed outright: