i hope im not being too forward , matthew said with some difficulty , his cold throat catching on his words , but i think if we just rearranged ourselves a bit ... amelia could feel him gesturing with his hands , and turned to find him pantomiming the action of her sitting in front of him , but he looked more like a man on a jet-way using both hands to guide an airplane taxiing to a parking spot , which in this case was the ground between his legs .