There was wilder music in the world than any to which she had yet listened,--music which seemed to be awakening vibrant melodies in her terrified heart.

The curtain which hung about the forbidden world had been suddenly lifted.

Little shivers of fear convulsed her.

Her standards were confused, her whole sense of values disturbed.

Her primal virginity, left to itself because it had never needed a guard, had suddenly become a questioning thing.
She sat there face to face with this new phase in her life.