“Fortunately she spread nothing except food on the beckoning cloth, and his sanity partially returned.”

“Every time she shut her eyes she saw herself wrapped in his arms in the middle of that beautiful bed just right for conceiving children.”

“She was a beautiful woman, fresh-scrubbed and wholesome. Just like his ex-fiancee. A heartless floozy in disguise.”

“She tilted her face to his, and he discovered that kissing her was something he didn't have to train for by reading a book. It came naturally.”

“Matt felt vindicated. See. If he'd rushed things and let his passion get the upper hand he might not have learned whether she like beef.”

“How could he try to get Sandi to reveal her true colors when she was a rainbow?”

“How could she be sorry about losing her virginity in a romance-novel way on a sunset sail?”