Caesar demanded more.

Her intellect offered him the highest enjoyment." Here he hesitated.
"True, the skill with which, to please Antony, she daily offered him for years fresh charms for every sense, was not a matter of accident." "And this," cried Barine, "this was undertaken by the woman who had recognized the chief good in peace of mind!" "Ay," replied Archibius thoughtfully, "yet this was the inevitable result.

Pleasure had been the young girl's object in life.

Ere passion awoke in her soul, peace of mind was the chief good she knew.

When the hour arrived that this proved unattainable, the firmly rooted yearning for happiness still remained the purpose of her existence.