These go to its sustenance, it is true, and both are birds, but the kite is a very different creature from the nightingale or the lark.

One of the great advantages of matrimony, if it endures long enough, is that when the sex attraction, which was its cause, has faded, or practically died, once more it makes friendship possible.
Perhaps the best thing of the little we have been told about heaven, is that in it there will be no sex.

If there were, it is doubtful whether it could remain heaven, as we define that state, since then must come desires, and jealousies, and selfishness, and disappointment; also births and deaths, since we cannot conceive sex-love without an object, or a beginning without an end.

From all of which troubles we learn that the angels are relieved.
Now this wondrous, burning mantle of sex had fallen on Godfrey and Isobel, as he had learned when he saw her with the knight in armour in the garden, and everything was changed beneath its fiery, smothering folds, and for him there was no Isobel.

His friend had gone, and he was left wandering alone.