Unfortunately, though, between a woman who has once betrayed her feelings and the man to whom she has done so, there are charged and mysterious and dangerous forces at work. Characteristic of those in love is a peculiar intuitive insight into the beloved’s true state of mind; and as it is in the very essence of love that its desires are limitless, any limit, any moderation whatsoever, is felt to be repugnant and intolerable. The lover will see resistance in any little hint of restraint and in anything less than total readiness on the part of the beloved, and will quite rightly interpret any
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