Yes, by God, I saw the girl, and the Great Emotion blew me out of domestic content and the pleasant sense of responsibility and turned me into the panting hungry youth that I had always wanted to be." He stopped and got up and walked up and down that mausoleum, with his eyes burning and the color back in his face.
"And the girl is Joan ?" asked Alice in a voice that had an oddly sharp note for once.
"Yes," he said.

"Joan....

She's done it," he added, no longer choosing his words.

"She's got me.

She's in my blood.