Stating the obvious: This week did strange things to people's inhibitions.

His compliment caught Lucille a little off guard; it hadn't really been part of her rehearsed plan, although thinking about it perhaps it should have been. Either way, she enjoyed it, and it made what she wanted to say easier.

"I have missed your company," she continued, not quite aware that she was letting her gaze wander up and down Ezra. "And I thought about the first time we met, and considered that perhaps it could be that we were interrupted. Not that we were quite ourselves, but still."

He had been about to kiss her then, after all.