"I wish that I'd gone riding this morning. I really miss trotting out with Pieter."
"Ah! The famous well-endowed groom."
"The very same. You sound almost jealous, Andrew."
"I know."
"We are great friends. Nothing more: no matter how splendid his endowments. Anyway," Clare shrugged. "Never mind."
"I like it when you share intimacies with me."
"Maybe that isn't a good idea," Clare smiled. "It might put you in danger of being loved by me."
Andrew stared at her, wondering what to say and then leant forward to kiss her. She responded and held him there her hands resting on his forearm as their lips melded together. The kiss lasted a good while, until with a little sigh she broke away and shuffled across into the corner, putting a little distance between them.
"That was a joke by the way."
"I love the way you tell those jokes," he grinned.
"I've never kissed anyone in a taxi before," she smiled back at him, his amusement contagious as ever. "I would have imagined it would be surreal."
"You look very attractive sitting in here with me. I could imagine you naked, Clare. There would be leatherette imprints on your flesh: on your bare tummy as you lay belly down and your upper thighs as they are splayed widely."
"Ah! No, it is your imagination that is stretched and displayed, Andrew," she giggled.
"If you like."
"I do like to giggle, unless of course, you don't like: in which case I will cease and desist immediately."
"You are very flexible."
"Do you mean double jointed, Andrew, or just sexually dextrous?"
"Actually I would hope the first a little bit, and expect the second most definitely."
"Super-heroine Miss Clare Dextrous to the rescue," she grinned. "She reaches the parts that other girls can't reach!"
"Her tongue as agile as a lizards. Her need to be beaten with left over celery sticks."
"If you please, sir," Clare cackled gleefully.
"And how long have you had these symptoms, Clare?"
"Ooh! Doctors and nurses is it now, Dr Andrew?"
"I think the taxi driver would object to being turned into an ambulance."
"Does that matter?"
"That depends on what sort of a mood he is in and whether he is prepared to sacrifice his vanity to you in your glamorous nurse's uniform."
"Even taxi drivers need to be loved, Andrew."
"You are such a generous girl, Clare."
"Well, to be excruciatingly honest, I am not in a playful mood, at least as far as taxi drivers of the world are concerned."
"I can stop pouting already then."
"Aw! Were you feeling unloved, Andrew?"
"I'm feeling tired and listless. I spent too much time out walking in the country over the weekend. The moors are so nice."
"Actually, Andrew, I once had a Moorish lover," Clare giggled infectiously. "Sometimes he was nice β so I know."
"Are you serious?"
"Yes, of course. He kept wanting more."
Andrew shook his head.
"It was the way he yelled Allah Akbah when he came that finally led me to leave him."
"Now your teasing is becoming absurd."
"Yes, but you still love it, Andrew." "Yes, I do."
"Seriously. I did have a brief liaison with an Arab boy. He was a refugee from Algeria during the troubles there."
"You are so cosmopolitan, Clare. All my relationships have been with English people. I don't even have an Irish or Scottish scalp to my name."
"You poor insular man."
"Was your Arab boy really nice?"
"Yes, he was, but he was very chauvinist..." Clare paused.
"I don't think they see it as chauvinism..."
"And," Clare interrupted and added in a delicious lie:" overly fond of sherbet dip after anal sex."
"Are you trying to leave me speechless?"
"I will leave you liquorice to eat to stop your complaining," she grinned and then looked at him seriously once again. "Tell me. Andrew..."
"Yes?"
"I may be too rich a mix for you. Perhaps you should water me down?"
"I hardly need to spice you up."
"I have to admit to being a practical 'AV' though."
"What is an AV?"
"An anal virgin," Clare shrugged. "I have often wanted to. I was going to buy one of those strings of beads, but I was too shy to order them. When I come I often feel like it would heighten the experience to have something, um, 'there'."
"You have to be careful and gentle."
"Yes, that's what I've read. I don't like hurt there, which is maybe why I've not tried it. My who'd have thought that this taxi would turn into a sex therapy clinic?"
"A girlfriend told me that my kiss on the bud was nice," Andrew replied reflectively, leaning forward to close the glass panel between them and the driver, "as is the arrow point of a tongue and the soft stroke of a finger."
"Kisses anywhere round there are nice specially after a really hard "sherbet dip," she laughed.
"Or a really hard spanking, you naughty girl."
"I think the pressing of a thumb would be preferable to the calloused palm of your hand."
"I'd like to do either to you, Clare."
"I know, Andrew but while you were away and after Pieter left, I still had my hairbrush."