He was the first man I had ever seen that had really attracted me.
You are not a woman, therefore you cannot understand me fully.

You see, a man goes to a woman; a woman is drawn to a man, usually, I suppose, against her will.

I know little about the subject, this being my first, and, I hope, my last experience, but--" "And I, too, hope," I interrupted.
"Yes," she continued quickly.

"But do you know I can almost understand the feeble, hopeless resistance which the iron tries to exert against the magnet.

But, cousin Ned, it is powerless." Here she brought her handkerchief to her eyes, and I exclaimed regretfully, "Oh, Frances, I am surprised and sorry!" "Yes, yes! I, too, was surprised, and was so sorry that I wept through the whole night following my first sight of him, and between shame for what I felt and longing to see him again, I suffered terribly.