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And then, suddenly, with the exact tone in which she's been discussing his work—their work, now—only a little hesitation first, she asks, "Can I kiss you?"
Her manner is so unchanged, the question sounding so much like others she's asked already, that it takes a moment for the full impact of it to hit, and Hari stares at her while his brain struggles to catch up. He should say no, or, more gently, I don't think that would be appropriate, or any of a thousand other refusals, delicate or blunt. But all he can think is that it's the second time today that Gaal has shocked him. Shocked him, moreover, to a degree, to a depth of himself, exposing some part of him, that no one has in a very long time, perhaps not since—
TL;DR: Gaal and Hari start fooling around in the weeks before they leave Trantor.