The Courtship of Mr Lyon

• The gate clanged loudly shut behind him; too loudly
• "drink me" "eat me" "perfect rose"
• The garden seemed to hold its breath in apprehension
• claws pierced the sheepskin as he shook him like an angry child shakes a doll
• Head of a lion; mane and mighty paws of a lion
• A constant human presence would remind him to bitterly of his otherness
• she was possessed by sense of obligation to an unusual degree
• He flung himself at her feet and buried his head in her lap
• All the natural laws of the world were held in suspension
• she cannot bring herself to touch him out of her own free will
• A sudden sense of perfect freedom… escape from an unknown danger


  Yet, with this exhilaration, desolating emptiness 
• An air of exhaustion… a kind of physical disillusion
• She flung herself upon him… covered his poor paws with her kisses 
• No longer a lion in her arms, but a man
• rumbling purr… with a hint of shyness, or fear of refusal