He asked Abelard to teach her.
Abelard was glad enough of the opportunity.

He came often and staid long.

A letter of his shows in its very first sentence that he came under that friendly roof like a cold-hearted villain as he was, with the deliberate intention of debauching a confiding, innocent girl.

This is the letter: "I cannot cease to be astonished at the simplicity of Fulbert; I was as much surprised as if he had placed a lamb in the power of a hungry wolf.

Heloise and I, under pretext of study, gave ourselves up wholly to love, and the solitude that love seeks our studies procured for us.