Thus encouraged, feeling almost like a young girl, timid, shy, bashful, almost stammering, she had dared to approach them, ostensibly to chat, inconsequentially, about the performance.
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They had permitted her to apologize for her forward actions of some days ago, not that such actions really required any such apology, and had expressed interest in her small observations, and speculations, particularly the young man.
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The blonde, though attentive and pleasant, had tended to be somewhat reserved, and, on the whole, had lingered in the background.
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That had suited the older woman very well, who did not care in the least for the young man's companion, whom she viewed as obviously far beneath him, profoundly unworthy of him.
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Did he not know that? The older woman, then pleased with the reticence and, for most practical purposes, the disappearance of the blonde, addressed herself delightedly to the young man, realizing that she was now somehow the center of his attention.
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She felt a wondrous warmth, and a strange animation in his presence.
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Seldom, it seemed, had she been so voluble, and witty.
Thus encouraged, feeling almost like a young girl, timid, shy, bashful, almost stammering, she had dared to approach them, ostensibly to chat, inconsequentially, about the performance.
They had permitted her to apologize for her forward actions of some days ago, not that such actions really required any such apology, and had expressed interest in her small observations, and speculations, particularly the young man.
The blonde, though attentive and pleasant, had tended to be somewhat reserved, and, on the whole, had lingered in the background.
That had suited the older woman very well, who did not care in the least for the young man's companion, whom she viewed as obviously far beneath him, profoundly unworthy of him.
Did he not know that? The older woman, then pleased with the reticence and, for most practical purposes, the disappearance of the blonde, addressed herself delightedly to the young man, realizing that she was now somehow the center of his attention.
She felt a wondrous warmth, and a strange animation in his presence.
Seldom, it seemed, had she been so voluble, and witty.
- (Prize of Gor, Chapter )