DELICIA - DELIGHT -
"What is your name?"
"Again, sir, that is no concern of yours".
"A mystery", he said. "I shall have to call you Delicia. May I put on your shoe for you?" She gave a start, her cheeks flamed.
"No!" she said chokingly. "You may do nothing for me except drive on!"
"Why, that is easily done!" he replied, and bent, and before she had time to realize his purpose, lifted her up in his arms, and walked off with her to his curricle.
Miss Tellaro ought to have screamed, or fainted. She was too surprised to do either, but as soon as she had recovered from her astonishment at being picked up in that easy way - as though she had been a featherweight, which she knew she was not - she dealt her captor one resounding slap, with the full force of her arm behind it.
He winced a little, but his arms did not slacken their hold, rather they tightened slightly.
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