Straightway he made her feel her sex. Now she was just a woman again, with all a woman’s limitations, and her relations with Corthell could never be⁠—so she realised⁠—any other than sex-relations. With Jadwin somehow it had been different. She had felt his manhood more than her womanhood, her sex side. And between them it was more a give-and-take affair, more equality, more companionship. Corthell spoke only of her heart and to her heart. But Jadwin made her feel⁠—or rather she made herself feel when he talked to her⁠—that she had a head as well as a heart.

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