I
never saw a girl light up a whole room before. You throw out stars
as you dance."
"That's like a skyrocket," Robin laughed back. "And it's because
in all my life I never went to a dance before."
"Never! You mean except to children's parties?"
"There were no children's parties. This is the first--first--first."
"Well, I don't see how that happened, but I am glad it did because
it's been a great thing for me to see you at your first--first--first."
He sat down on the fountain's edge near her.
"I shall not forget it," he said.
"I shall remember it as long as I live," said Robin and she lifted
her unsafe eyes again and smiled into his which made them still
more unsafe.
Perhaps it was because he was extremely young, perhaps it was
because he was immoral, perhaps because he had never held a tight
rein on his fleeting emotions, even the next moment he felt that
it was because he was an idiot--but suddenly he found he had let
himself go and was kissing the warm velvet of the slim little
nape--had kissed it twice.
He had not given himself time to think what would happen as a
result, but what did happen was humiliating and ridiculous. One
furious splash of the curled hand flung water into his face and
eyes and mouth while Robin tore herself free from him and stood
blazing with fury and woe--for it was not only fury he saw.
"You--You--!" she cried and actually would have swooped to the
fountain again if he had not caught her arm.
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