From Ian Fleming's "Moonraker"
CHAPTER 16
(Of Gala Brand, swimming with Bond in English coastal waters.)
She turned back to look for him again and it was then that he suddenly surged up from the sea beneath her. She felt the quick tight clasp of his arms round her and the swift hard impact of his lips on hers.
“Damn you”, she said furiously, but already he had dived again and by the time she had spat out a mouthful of seawater and got her bearings he was swimming blithely twenty yards away.
She turned and swam out to sea, feeling rather ridiculous but determined to snub him. It was just as she had thought. These Secret Service people always seemed to have time for sex however important their jobs might be.
But her body obstinately tingled with the shock of the kiss and the golden day seemed to have taken on a new beauty.
© 1955 by Glidrose Productions Ltd.