I remembered a truism that I had always known: no woman need let a man know the contents of her mind.
There are no accidents in this world, that no living being is seduced into an entanglement that he did not invite with his innermost desires. Would you agree with my estimation?
I was a married woman! she said. Why does every generation believe it is the discoverer of pleasure? Your father was a spectacular lover. Even through the wall, I could hear the triumph in her voice.
I'm afraid that the gift of visiting the past is all that we have. We can revisit it, but only as it happened.