Re: Zipporah and Gabriel
"You are pretty," Zipporah replied, relaxing enough to smile up at him, "but you are not so vain as that. I should not like you nearly as much if you were."
"And you are a flatterer, Mr Allen," she said, "...not that I am complaining," she continued, with a laugh.
"A flatterer who knows for how to dance," she added for good measure. She felt very nearly graceful -- it was remarkable how a gentle press of his fingers on her back, on her hand, a slight tip of his chin was all it took to communicate where they were moving to next.