Chapter Ten
The Image
This work is dedicated to Jean de Berg whose original novel of the same title, as well as the masterful film by Radley Metzger, will live on as classics of erotic fiction.
She senses the movement under the table. His hand is partially hidden by the drape of the linen tablecloth. Only after the waiter had brought their brandy and departed, did the hand move once again, this time casually dropping down to come to rest on the top of her leg just below the hem of her dress. And he lets it rest there, where it resides with a proprietary air, just sitting there, doing nothing, yet warming her, exciting her. The quiet thrill of feeling her lover’s hand lightly resting on her stocking.
Now the hand is moving, slowly inching its way downward and curving into the inner thig
