You take an awful load off my heart." She glanced up at him, now once more composed.

Her eyes gleamed with a veiled impishness.
"No girl ever died from being kissed.

But what a splendid lover you would make!" Away she darted a few steps, to whirl and point and waggle a finger at the dumfounded youth.

"Are you coming?
Because I don't consider this a wise place to be with a flighty, irresponsible man, first name Lee.

Besides, it's beginning to grow dark in here." Bryant joined her.