But the subsequent outpourings of affection caused her to remark it was "worth being shot at – to see how much one is loved".
Rainilaiarivony confided in a friend shortly before his death that he deeply loved his first wife and came to share the same degree of feeling toward Rasoherina as well, but never developed the same affection for the subsequent queens he married.
Her gentle affection for the cat, and subsequent grief when All Ball was killed by a car, further endeared Koko to the public.
We recognized each other immediately, on first meeting, and I felt a familiarity and affection that has grown with each subsequent visit.
There was an easy affection between them, and indeed, all the subsequent companions were given some kind of quirk, perhaps in tribute to Sarah-Jane being an indomitable everywoman.
ʿĀʾishah's physical charms, intelligence, and wit, together with the genuine warmth of their relationship, secured her a place in his affections that was not lessened by his subsequent marriages.
But she looks on the four men now — and on her two decades with the group and its managing director, Janet Cowperthwaite — with undimmed affection: an affection rekindled by the Martynov San Francisco concert and subsequent recording session.
Don't miss them vying for the affections of Herman Cornejo's Solor, nor one of the subsequent performances, during the rest of the week, of Alexei Ratmansky's "Bright Stream".
The continuing affection for Philby among his former colleagues was made clear in subsequent interviews with Elliott and with Anthony Cavendish, a former MI6 officer, long after Philby fled to Moscow.
(To his credit, Biddulph has deleted the subsequent line of earlier editions: "Many gay or bisexual men I have spoken to say a lack of fatherly affection was part of what made male affection more important to them").
