Josephine smiled and she leaned down into the kiss a little, returning it passionately.<span style="font-style: italic">"I missed you so much.."</span>"As did I. More than I can ever say."<span style="font-style: italic">"I never want to leave your side again...even for a few hours."</span>"And neither do I. Let us hope luck remains with us and we shall stay side by side until the end of time. Let us never be separated, because that was the hardest of all things for me to take." It reminded her of all her time, stuck up in her cell in the tower, with no one but the lusty, taunting guards. Raoul had not been anywhere near her, and it made that torment all the more painful. But that was in the past, and it would barely cross her mind. Josephine looked down at Raoul and kissed him on the nose. "I remember our night out here, before we were so rudely, harshly interrupted. But tonight we shall continue what we had started; and nothing will hold us back."