'Oh no,' I said to myself. 'I can't really be seeing..." But I was.
Tessa Allbright, Dan's daughter from next door, was out in the Allbright's garden in the very early summer's morning light; really, really early when no one would sensibly be up and about, standing there in the sunshine. I say 'standing', if her pose could be described as just 'standing.' How do women and girls do that? Just artfully pose without thinking. If it had been a man he would just have just been standing there, solid and graceless, but Tessa... One foot a little in front of the other, its leg thereby coming a hint forward of the other, which meant her hip was not quite level. One hip up above the other -- a charming asymmetry. And she had her hands raised and pulling back, or was that tying up her long and rather striking in the morning light, blond hair. It was in her hands, and she was doing something with it. I could see the swell of her breast in her half turn as she worked at her hair. The breast pulled taut. Was that the outline of a nipple?