You'd think that would have been forgotten long ago. But no, no sooner has a little grass grown over it than some clumsy camel comes along and rakes it all up again." Caroline giggled. She was probably imagining Aunt Glenda as a camel. "This is not a TV series, Maddy," said Lady Arista sharply. "Thank goodness, no, it isn't," said Great-aunt Maddy. "If it were, I'd have lost track of the plot ages ago.
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 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 GierYou have a mother?" Only when I said it did I realize what a silly question it was! For heaven's sake! Gideon raised one eyebrow. "What did you expect?" he asked, amused. "You thought I was an android put together by Uncle Falk and Mr. George?
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.
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