Summer Lightning
“He came around and opened her door for her.“Did I keep you waiting?”“No. You’re punctual to the minute.”She saw that he had changed into gray flannels, a becoming blue shirt with a scarf at its open neck, a light jacket. He was hatless and seemed in a holiday mood.“Nice,” he said approvingly, looking her up and down as she got in the car and bending to tuck her pleated skirt out of harm’s way.“Nice, too,” she said, greatly daring, eyeing him in turn.He laughed and slid in beside her. She liked ...the look of his long brown hands on the wheel. She liked his clean, strong profile, the arrogant way he carried his head, the dark hair. She stole bemused glances at him as he swung the car dexterously along Mdina’s narrow alleys, passed beneath the archway and over the drawbridge, negotiated the clamorous square with its panting red buses, donkeys, hawkers and loungers and turned off onto the coastward road at the bottom of the hill.“What a wonderful day,” she exclaimed spontaneously as the sea came into view.MoreLess
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