"Would make sense, there was a great deal of energy in the air between us, earlier."

She shivers when he kisses her palm. "So would I." She flushes. "You need not worry about getting me with child, when you lay with me." She does not want him to worry about that! "And if what the gossips say is true, that a woman hurts, bleeds, when she first lays with a man, I care not." Her expression is determined.