She returned to posing her subject, noting with approval that he was wearing a new Stetson, not the stained one he usually wore. She lifted it carefully from his head.

"Hey, What're you doing?" he protested, reaching for it.

"I'm going to put it right here on your knee," she informed him, proud that she was able to treat him just as she had treated all the other men. "Now put your hand right here, like this, and hold it." With finger and thumb, she made a minor adjustment to the angle of his wrist, trying not to notice how warm his skin felt through the cuff of his shirt. He smelled clean and fresh, like outdoors, and faintly of tobacco, and so blessedly familiar. "Now rest your other hand on your other knee," she said a little breathlessly.

He obeyed, but she could tell from his expression that he wasn't very comfortable with the situation, either. Still being very careful not to touch him any more than necessary, she moved his hand slightly, appalled to note her fingers were trembling again.

It was only because he was staring at her, she decided. Yes, that had to be it. Felicity stepped back a pace to examine her handiwork. A lock of silver hair had been dislodged when she removed his hat and had fallen over his forehead. With great care, she reached over to smooth it back in place. She was a little surprised that it was so soft. Somehow she had expected his hair to be coarser, the way her father's gray hair had been. She let her fingertips play over it another second.

She was leaning over so close to him that Josh could, with very little effort, have kissed the tip of her breast. "Ahem." He cleared his throat.

Felicity jumped back, startled. "That looks fine," she said, scurrying back to focus the camera.

"Don't look so mean, boss," she heard Bill Grady say. "Looks like you're mad at somebody."

Josh knew he was mad at somebody, but he didn't like to think about who that somebody was. It would have to be the person who had gotten him mixed up with Miss Felicity Storm in the first place, and he could think of no one to blame for that except himself.

Felicity came out from under the cape. Mr. Grady was right. Mr. Logan looked mad, and she had a pretty good idea at whom. Still, she wasn't about to let him ruin her picture. "Mr. Logan?" she called sweetly.

Josh swung his gaze over to where she was standing looking like the picture of innocence. "What?" he asked warily.

"Would you like some nails?" she inquired.

Josh frowned in puzzlement. "Nails? What for?"

"Why, to chew, of course. That's just what you look mad enough to do," she explained.

A moment of silence followed her announcement, and then the men broke into loud guffaws. Josh needed a minute to realize he had been the butt of a joke. He could not remember the last time anyone had been bold enough to make fun of Joshua Logan. He should have been angry, but the sensation was so novel that he could only marvel at it. Candace was the only person in the world who dared to tease him, and now this tiny slip of a girl was making fun of him.

He knew she was getting a small measure of vengeance for his desertion this morning, but that no longer seemed to matter. He took her in from the top of her golden head to the toes of her shiny black shoes. Small she might be, but she was all woman. He knew that from the kiss that hadn't happened. How would she kiss him if she weren't frightened? A curious smile twitched at his lips.

"That's more like it," she decreed. "Now look right up here! Don't move! Ready?"

Felicity removed the lens cap and recited her little verse, stumbling once she noticed Mr. Logan was looking at her instead of at the camera, but recovering nicely.

Like a man hypnotized, Josh watched the way her soft pink lips formed around the words of the nonsensical rhyme, remembering how those lips tasted. Candace's suggestive words echoed in his mind. Yes, there were several things a sweet young wife could do for him that his mammy never could.

Felicity finished the rhyme, her voice trailing off uncertainly. It was funny the way Mr. Logan's eyes could make her feel hot and cold all at the same time, like she wanted to run away from him and toward him, both at once.

"Better put the cap back on," Cody urged, nudging her slightly.

Startled, she quickly snapped the cap back in place. What had gotten into her to start daydreaming like that? She might have ruined the picture! Hastily, she turned and instructed Cody to remove the plate holder from the camera, but he was already doing so. Feeling more foolish by the moment, she hurried over to the wagon, grateful when Cody followed her so that she could close the door on what she imagined were many pairs of staring eyes.

Actually, only two pairs of eyes were staring. One pair belonged to Josh. The other pair of staring eyes belonged to Candace, who had come outside to watch Joshua having his picture made. She hadn't missed a thing that passed between him and Felicity. She grinned to herself. Much as she would like to, when all was said and done, she would not be able to take any credit for getting Josh and Felicity together. No, Mother Nature could do that, or whoever it was who'd made Josh a man and Felicity a woman.

Inside the wagon, Felicity forced her jumping nerves into obedience again. "If you don't mind, Cody, I want to develop this plate myself," she said, hoping Cody wouldn't ask her why. She wasn't really sure why herself, since Cody had already proven that he could do a perfectly adequate job.

"All right," he said, setting the plate holder down and moving out of her way in the darkness.

"You're doing a fine job, and you can do the rest of them. I just want to do this one myself," she explained.

"I understand," Cody said. He sounded as if he really did, too. Felicity wished that she did.

Because Felicity did both the developing and the preparation of the new plate, the process took a little longer than the routine that she and Cody had established. Josh waited impatiently, resisting with difficulty the urge to bang on the door and demand to know what was keeping them. When they finally did come out, he felt inordinately relieved.

"You've done got everybody's picture now, Miss Felicity. Do you want us to start packing all this stuff up?" Grady asked.

"Oh no," Felicity replied, grateful for this distraction. For some reason she was having a very difficult time keeping her eyes from straying over to where Mr. Logan was standing. "I don't have everyone's picture yet. Where's Candace?"

The men thought this was a terrific idea, and they eagerly dragged her forward and presented her to Felicity. Candace was protesting rather vigorously, but Felicity noticed that she was wearing a gorgeous new calico dress and had her hair wrapped in a matching turban. No woman dressed that carefully just to watch other people get their pictures made. Felicity took great delight in posing her on the same set she had used for Mr. Logan.

"Now I'm going to take group pictures, and some shots of the ranch buildings," Felicity announced when she and Cody emerged from developing Candace's plate. "Could some of you men fetch a bench and put it over there? Cody, I'll need to have the camera moved to right about here," she instructed, using her heel to draw a mark in the dirt.

The men leaped to do her bidding. All except Josh, who could not seem to take his eyes off her. Surrendering to a compulsion to be closer, he moved up behind her and asked, "How'd my picture come out?"

Felicity started and whirled around. "It… it's very nice," she managed, although she felt a trifle breathless.

Josh studied her face. She looked awfully pretty when her cheeks turned pink like that. "How soon do I get to see it?"

"I… I don't know; a couple of days or so…" she murmured.

Josh was so interested in the way the sunlight was gleaming off her golden hair that for a moment her words didn't quite register. "A couple days?" he asked incredulously when they finally had. "Why will it take a couple days?"