The reaction was instant, and she imagined read quite plainly across her features. Her lips pressed, her gaze narrowed and Reinette moved to inform Jack quite plainly that --

Except that Jack chose that precise moment, when she moved to speak to trace his thumb across her mouth and drawing from it silence instead of sound.

And then he kissed her.

She supposed she might have lectured him there. They were certainly skilled enough at it. What she would say he would understand. But she did not.

She only met him, and kissed him softly in return.