Yes--yes, that's exactly what I meant and couldn't say--yesexactly. Thank you--
Well, he may be in love, but that doesn't change anything. He's well aware this isn't a girl you shower with roses or lillies, and what's more, if she were, he wouldn't. In fact, if she were, she'd never have interested him in the first place.
He has to ask the right kind of questions now, and he wants questions that won't let anything on about him. His sharp girl is not the kind of girl who would be gentle if she knew he was in love with her. She'd probably bite him.
He goes over all these things in his head, and realises how well he understands her. That pleases him extraordinarily. He likes things he understands.
"What do you think of me?" he demands, in a voice that admits no desire to know the answer.
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Date: 2006-04-11 01:46 pm (UTC)Well, he may be in love, but that doesn't change anything. He's well aware this isn't a girl you shower with roses or lillies, and what's more, if she were, he wouldn't. In fact, if she were, she'd never have interested him in the first place.
He has to ask the right kind of questions now, and he wants questions that won't let anything on about him. His sharp girl is not the kind of girl who would be gentle if she knew he was in love with her. She'd probably bite him.
He goes over all these things in his head, and realises how well he understands her. That pleases him extraordinarily. He likes things he understands.
"What do you think of me?" he demands, in a voice that admits no desire to know the answer.