Itโs funny, but I was just thinking I wouldnโt mind a repeat of that boring evening when we elapsed to 1953,โ said Gideon. โJust you and me and Cousin Sofa.
Kerstin GierI canโt do it, Gideon! I canโt make out the way you kiss me one moment and then act as if you loathed me like poison the next!โ Gideon said, after a brief pause, โIโd much rather be kissing you the whole time than loathing you, but you donโt exactly make it easy for me.
Kerstin GierYou were talking to that niche in the wall again, Gwyneth. I saw you." "Yes, but it's my favorite bit of wall, Gordon. I'd hurt its feelings if I didn't stop and talk to it.
Kerstin GierWhenever he looks at me with those big brown eyes, I feel like giving him a nut,โ she said. She even started calling the squirrels running around in the park Mr. Whitmans.
Kerstin GierHe took a hairpin out of my untidy hair (by now my complicated arrangement of ringlets must have looked as if a couple of birds had been nesting there); he took a strand of it and wound it around his finger. With his other hand he began stroking my face, and then he bent down and kissed me again, this time very cautiously. I closed my eyes - and the same thing happened as before: my brain suffered that delicious break in transmission.
Kerstin Gier