[Mandy chuckles herself, the sound small and breathy as she licks her lips both to draw in more of the other woman's taste and in what is a relatively subtle hint of her]

Oh, you are quite something. [and it's not a sort of lie in the cheap way it would have been years ago, if she'd seen the girl among the throngs after a show. They were all something but--well, none of them stood out. Now, someone who talks to her like this and looks at her that way without knowing her past is nothing short of marvelous]

I don't see any harm in holding up the line. We are doing our civic duty, after all. And if I'm understanding things correctly, we'd probably be doing the same in another venue as well to a lesser degree.