The Hand but Not the Heart

"But I do not forget, Mrs. Denison, that as you have so often said to me, there are true marriages in which the parties are drawn towards each other by sexual affinities peculiar to themselves; and that a union in such cases, is the true union by which they become, in the language of inspiration, 'one flesh.' I can enter into none other. When I first met Jessie Loring, a spirit whispered to me-was it a lying spirit?-a spirit whispered to me-'the beautiful complement of your life!' I believed on the instant. In that I may have been romantic."