key-and

Updated: June 4, 2025

I gave a glance about its interior, marking the distance to the ground; then took the key-and inserted it in the outer lock. She stood silently facing me, her face flushed, her bosom rising and falling swiftly. "I regret very much this necessity," I apologized, "but you have left me no alternative." "I have no desire to be spared," she returned, "and no favors to ask, Lieutenant Galesworth."

Randall Parrish - Love under Fire