1.   Booker and Annie proceed incrementally but inexorably from glances to stolen kisses to groping to severe chafing.

2.   In the beginning it was just stolen kisses and mock wrestling on the living-room floor.

3.   Not long after sharing a first stolen kiss, these tentative sweethearts hatch an unformed plan to flee the city for the open spaces of New Mexico.

4.   Opportunities for stolen kisses and clandestine gropes are, predictably if rather slowly, taken advantage of.

5.   Apart from a few stolen kisses, has he indicated in any way that he cares enough to upset his parents arrangements for his future?