She was full of questions and eye contact. He told her of the history of another and another painting as she listened with an approximation of attention. If she'd asked him to repeat what he'd just said he couldn't have obliged her. He was aware that he was speaking a familiar speech that he'd given to tour groups of grandmothers and art students before her but he couldn't say at what point in the speech he was. He could draw her deep blue eyes from memory though. He knew the brushstrokes that would paint her hair.
At the end of each speech at each painting she riddled him with questions. Had this artist been influenced by a certain other artist? From whose collection did the museum receive it? Had it been offered or was it pursued? How many times had they asked? She knew the answers. He felt her study his reactions at each question mark. He felt her undressing him with her eyes from his knowledge downward.
"What is your least popular exhibit?" she asked, her gaze penetrating him as he welcomed more.
"The furniture on the lower level."
She stepped forward. "Why isn't it popular?"
He stuttered for the first time and expected her to lose interest when he couldn't answer. "It's a bauhaus desert down there most days. Particularly during the week. I don't know why. Perhaps..."
She grabbed his crotch. "Show me."
"Of course." His entire body stiffened in her hand.
The furnishings were separated by continents. By time. By style, by influence, by owner. Each room was a different epoch of beds and night stands. Or ancient place settings arranged on grand dining tables as though waiting for servants to broach the velvet ropes and serve the evening's meal to absent guests.
"What do you think they had for dinner?" She turned to face him and leaned on a gold stanchion, arms behind her waist.
"I'm not sure what was available at the time but I suspect..."
"I'm not interested in your suspicions, docent."
He stammered again at her question. He knew the entire world of the first and second floors but here he was out of his element. He could read the placards to her but her intellect and her curiosity demanded more. He feared his lack of knowledge would send her away and her hand would play elsewhere.
"I'm afraid that..."
"No, docent." His cock stiffened as she again called him by his title. "You shouldn't be afraid of anything here."
She walked toward him and slowly pulled her dark skirt up with each step. When she was almost directly in front of him he saw the tops of her stockings and just a brief glimpse of the flesh above before she was almost pressed against him.
"There aren't any wrong answers."
He leaned forward to kiss her and she pulled back her head. "But there may be a few missteps."
Confused, his breath stopped. She grinned almost imperceptibly and gathered her skirt in front of herself, holding it now in one hand as she reached out for him with the other. She brought his hand to her panties. She rubbed his knuckles and the backs of her fingers softy against the silky material. "Slide them down." Her voice was sweet and assured. Wrapped in her breath the command sounded more like a proposal.