He leaned forward, fingers interlaced, and said, "This should be good."

"The finger," she said, amazed at the steadiness in her voice.

His fingers bit hard into my skin, and he said, 'Come with me, down in the dark.'

"We won't do anything special against them," said Nolan, "except cross our fingers."

"Your fingers, of course," he said, kneeling down and going to work on his own pile.

"But there was one once," said she coyly, shaking a finger at me.

Tonight he pleaded, although his fingers said other things.

"Go on," said the large man impatiently as the other bit his finger again.

He put the finger to his own nose, and with a twinkle in his eyes said, "Just right."

"Let me feel," said Jack eagerly, and pushed away the goatherd's fingers.