No. Truthfully: he was unaccustomed to touching people. There was something novel and thrilling about it, but the easy, tactile grace that seemed to spring naturally between couples—a hand in the small of a back, a caress, a touch—was not within his realm of experience. Had he been a different man, he might have swept her into his arms and pressed kisses into her hair, soothed her, brought her down from the excruciating pain she had been subjected to. 