And no one who saw them together in anything like intimate intercourse could doubt that it was true.

As I have said before, Lewes worshipped her, and it is considered a somewhat unwholesome experience to be worshipped.

Fortunately the process is not so common as to constitute one of the dangers of life for the average human being! But in George Eliot's case I really believe the process was not deleterious.

Her nature was at once stimulated and steadied by Lewes's boundless faith in her powers, and boundless admiration for their manifestation.

Nor was it a case of sitting like an idol to be praised and incensed.