he reached a hand out to the arch of her back and placed a wide palm across it , feeling the square little hump of the bra clip ; her lips found his neck , and his cheek , and her crying became louder and crazier and in spite of this , or maybe because of it , he kissed her long and hard and in all the ways he would have done if it had been coquetry and cockteasing rather than this tremendous emotional collapse .