A Man of Parts

''I want to stay, Luke,'' she said, looking shyly at him. ''It's time for me to be a woman.'' Emotion surged up in him at the courage in her eyes. He knew she had risked the most fearful snub a woman could get. Then he caught her to him, and all her womanhood pushed out to him in her warm full breasts. ''Even if you wanted to go now,'' he whispered, ''I couldn't let you.''--bk. cvr.

By the author of ''The Chinese Room''--fr. cvr.