As the evening wore on, they had drinks and danced almost every dance, especially the slow ones. All too soon the band leader announced that the band ...as finishing up for the night and that the next number would be the last one. While he and Gail glided around the dance floor, John glanced down at his companion and found her looking up at him. She looked so desirable, he couldn’t help himself. He began moving his face down toward hers. Their lips met and both John and Gail found themselves. Hey, where's your partner, Dickie?" Got snaffled by Jean Holdsworth who knows her mother. I'd better go and rescue her. Excuse me a moment."At that moment the Frenches arrived. "Hang on a moment," Mark said to Victoria. "I'll go and get Diana. She won't know a soul."He was back in a few minutes and introduced a shy Diana to the rest of the group. Victoria took her hand. It did not take long for her beauty to attract two unattached subalterns and she soon relaxed.Soon afterwards Peter and Angela. The explosive charges had taken yet another day, but Abigail had not begrudged that time, it had even been informative. Cole, it turned out, had been both a miner and a soldier at points in his past and knew more about explosives than Abigail had been able to learn. It was difficult to work side by side with the man. When she looked at him she remembered the sight of him ravishing his wife, as he apparently did several times a night from the sounds which emanated from his room, and remembered. I re-run that first night in my head. I went with my new roommate to this student party. My experience with boys up to that time was just a few fumbles. As soon as we arrived a glass of wine was put into our hands and then we were whisked off to the dance floor. After a couple of drinks I felt fine, a bit giggly but in control; after two more I was gone. My current dance partner took me to a quiet area and we started to snog. I don't think I ever knew his name, but he was the first guy to ever.