[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.

So long in secret cabin there he held
Her captive to his sensual desire

But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.

He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it.

He loved her so passionately he wanted her to be one soul and one body with him; and he was conscious that here, with those deep roots attaching her to the native life, she would always keep something from him.

From that time on she lived in lonely caves.

Case fell into the prison of his own flesh.

To hold her, to keep her — just as she was — with her cruelty, with her vulgarity, with her blinding blue eyes, with her miserable poetry, with her fat feet, with her impure, dry, sordid, infantile soul. All of a sudden he thought: If people are reunited in Heaven (I don’t believe it, but suppose), then how shall I stop it from creeping upon me, that shriveled, helpless, lame thing, her soul? But this is the earth, and I am, curiously enough, alive, and there is something in me and in life — -

A skeleton in the closet saves on a grave.

A second later, the water enclosed him in a coffin of ice.

Come," he said, taking her by the hand and leading her to a distant sopha, "come and sit by me, and let us talk of bats.

You entered my aura and fell into my arms. I just wrapped around you like a snake that's been charmed.

The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies.