Ultimate Prizes
“RAVENA WANDERER’S WAY1THE CLASP LASTED THREE SECONDS. THEN, RELEASING HER, I found myself muttering idiotically: “Sorry. Most unedifying. Thoroughly unseemly,” and those adjectives, so well-worn by an earlier generation of clergymen, added an air of bathos to my horrified reaction; with a few antique words it seemed I had turned a silly slip into melodrama. Finally, to pile indignity upon indignity, I began to blush, and turning my back on Dido I grabbed my Bible from the parapet of the wishing... well. I instinctively knew that my hands should be fully occupied before they succumbed to a second catastrophic urge to wander.“Dearest Stephen!” said Dido enthralled. “Why on earth are you apologising? I can’t see anything wrong with an affectionate hand-clasp between friends!”All I could say was: “You promised not to call me by that name.” I was still unable to look at her.“Archdeacon dear, please don’t be so upset! Of course I adore you passionately, but why should sex ruin our beautiful friendship?MoreLess
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