from ESTRANGEMENT
Only once did she feel loved by a man on what we might call
the wash of the cellular level
No—; twice—; the second only occurring to her now
in the act of reckoning and revision of that reckoning.
Why, she sees, it didn’t occur
to her from the start is
she could not receive it;
and, as much as she tried,
as prudent as it would have been,
as full of his warmth her night still would be,
neither could she return it.
Only once did she feel loved by a man on what we might calland return
