She was some kind of a morbid Catholic, because that word succubus was unknown to the profane.

That was all.

Then there was her husband, who, gullible as he might be, must nevertheless suspect their liaison, since, by her own confession, she dissembled her obsession very badly.
"This is what I get for letting myself be carried away.

For I, too, wrote at first to amuse myself with aphrodisiac statements.

Then I ended by becoming completely hysterical.