To be loved to madness—such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.

被人爱到疯狂——这就是她最大的渴望。对她而言，爱情是唯一能够驱散日夜啃噬她的孤独的甘露。她所向往的，似乎更是那种叫作热恋的抽象感受，而非某一个具体的爱人。