‘Ahh!’

‘But not on this kind of trip. Believe what you like, but I don’t try to seduce the girls in a party that I’m leading. For one thing, it would be unprofessional, and for another, their boyfriends would kill me. I’d end up down the nearest crevasse.’

‘You prefer a balcony to swing from?’

She heard his laugh in the darkness, and felt the vibration of his body.

‘All right, all right,’ she conceded. ‘You’re Mr Virtuous.’

‘Not entirely. There is one girl I had trouble being virtuous with. She always left me wondering, you see, and I could never work out whether she was tantalizing me on purpose, or just didn’t know how she was getting under my skin.’

She felt his lips close to her ear as he murmured, ‘I’ll never know, unless you tell me.’

‘What did you-’ Astounded by what she’d heard, she turned her head and found his lips brushing her cheek. Coming unexpectedly, it was like an electric shock. ‘What did you say?’

‘Did you know what you were doing to me? It’s kind of important to me to know.’

‘What I did to you? Haven’t you got that the wrong way round?’

‘Not at all. From the start, you set out to be a thorn in my side. The first day was all right. We had that chat in the evening and I thought, This is great. Here’s someone I can talk to. But after that you were possessed by the devil, and I think you did it on purpose.’

She recovered her poise enough to say, ‘Couldn’t you tell?’

‘No, that’s what I meant. I never knew. I still don’t know and it’s driving me wild. You’re such a little tease-’

‘I am not!’

‘Really? So it was just accident that you danced like that with Marcel, knowing it would put everything you have on display.’

‘I was decently dressed in trousers.’

‘It wasn’t your clothes, it was the way you moved-slinky, sensual, in tight trousers that showed you off to every man.’