Secretly she wouldn't have minded if he had.
They lost all track of time. It was almost two in the morning when the band played the last waltz.
Outside a hard frost had formed and it crunched beneath their feet. Sally shivered in the cold night air and Bill draped his overcoat around her shoulders.
“You wait here where it's warmer,” he said, guiding her back to the doorway. “I don't want you to slip on the frost. I'll bring the car around to the door.”
While she was waiting Sally gazed up towards the stars. How large they seemed tonight, much brighter than she had ever seen them before. There were millions of them; all looking like enormous sparkling diamonds hanging by invisible threads in the night sky.
'How beautiful,' she thought, pulling Bill's coat tightly around her. She was am
