A nineteenth-century adventure yarn , loosely derived from a poem by Lord Byron , Le Corsaire tells of harems , abductions , pirates , pashas , slave girls , treachery , true love and a shipwreck.
Sometimes, preoccupied with her work, she sang the refrain very low, very lingeringly; " A long time ago" came out like the saddest cadence of a funeral hymn.
Alex completely undermines his point by pulling Henry into a deep and lingering kiss, and another, and they kiss for an amount of time he decides not to count or think about.