“Before long, silhouetted against the manufacturing center’s expansive profusion of lights, the Gothic towers of the city’s famed cathedral revealed themselves, stretching toward the airship like ghostly fingers.“It is a lovely sight,” Hilda sighed.“Yes it is,” Charteris said, but he was looking at her.She wore a white silk shantung tunic dress with black buttons that angled across her full bosom and then marched down the side of her skirt in a straight line. He found her utterly bewitching, her... braided blonde hair and deep blue eyes and creamy complexion, and full lips and full figure, rounding as it did, and narrowing, and flowing, at the precisely correct places….She caught him staring at her. “Is something wrong?”“Nothing is wrong. Not on the earth or in the heavens.”“Well, you look very nice, yourself, Leslie—you seem to be the only man who bothered dressing for dinner.”He was in his tuxedo, which seemed none the worse for the half day it had spent folded up in his valise.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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