And if that ain't romantic, I don't know what is! Which may explain why I've never had a girlfriend...
Still, one more week in this storyline, then it's on to #48, "Hierogamia," the finale of Book VIII, Stolen Moments. It also occurs to me that I've never linked to the recording of "Stolen Moments" that provides this book with its title and which is one of the several "theme songs" I've always had in my head for the overall Daily Grind series: Oliver Nelson and his group from their 1961 album Blues and the Abstract Truth. So now I have.
Forty-Seven - Maintenance