Meanwhile, without complicity on his part, without his knowledge, yet absolutely involving his fate, the battle had gone against him in Aminta's breast.
Like many of his class and kind, he was thoroughly acquainted with the physical woman, and he took that first and very engrossing volume of the great Book of Mulier for all the history.

A powerful wing of imagination, strong as the flappers of the great Roc of Arabian story, is needed to lift the known physical woman even a very little way up into azure heavens.

It is far easier to take a snap-shot at the psychic, and tumble her down from her fictitious heights to earth.

The mixing of the two make nonsense of her.

She was created to attract the man, for an excellent purpose in the main.