The moment I learned that you had never heard of me, I felt it." Zora breathed comfortably again.

It was not an implied declaration.
"I'm fighting against the Powers of Darkness," he continued.

"I once read a bit of Spenser's 'Faerie Queene.' There was a Red Cross Knight who slew a Dragon--but he had a fabulous kind of woman behind him.

When I saw you, you seemed that fabulous kind of woman." At a sharp wall corner a clump of tall poinsettias flamed against the sky.
Zora laughed full-heartedly.
"Here we are in the middle of a Fairy Tale.

What are the Powers of Darkness in your case, Sir Red Cross Knight ?" "Jebusa Jones's Cuticle Remedy," said Sypher savagely..