She had a well of sensuousness which might one day become sensuality; she had a richness of feeling and a contour in harmony with it, which might expand into voluptuousness, if given too much sun, or if untamed by the normal restraints of a happy married life.

There was an earthquake zone in her being which might shake down the whole structure of her existence.

She was unsafe, not because she was deceiving Jean Jacques now as to her origin and as to her feelings for him; she was unsafe because of the natural strain of the light of love in her, joined to a passion for comfort and warmth and to a natural self-indulgence.

She was determined to make Jean Jacques offer himself before they landed at Quebec.
But they did not land at Quebec..