Crossword-Solution: SHOCKING 8 letters, 61 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

Haven't I? - he thought. Haven't I thought of it since the first time I saw you? Haven't I thought of nothing else for two years? ... He sat motionless, looking at her. He heard the words he had never allowed himself to form, the words he had felt, known, yet had not faced, had hoped to destroy by never letting them be said within his own mind. Now it was as sudden and shocking as if he were saying it to her ... Since the first time I saw you ... Nothing but your body, that m…

You know,” she said dreamily, passing over his question, “you’re not nearly as handsome as Lord St. Vincent.”“There’s a surprise,” he said dryly.“But for some reason,” she continued, “I never want to kiss him the way I do you.” It was a good thing that she had closed her eyes, for if she had seen his expression, she might not have continued. “There is something about you that makes me feel terribly wicked. You make me want to do shocking things. Maybe it’s because you’re so p…

There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb.