Hot Shots
The man was unfamiliar but he wore breeches, a dress coat with tails, a vest and white shirt, and a top hat, which he swept off as he bent at the waist in a gentleman's bow.
"Miss St. John?"
Liz stared at him and thought, What the hell?
"Uh, yes. That's me."
He extended his free hand that held a single red rose. "For you, Miss St. John. A single red rose symbolizes eternal love, as the Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote."
Liz looked at the rose and at him, her tongue stuck to the roof of her mouth.
"Uh..."
"Please take it." He smiled. "It's given with the full pledge of eternity behind it."