It is treated like a courtesan, rather than like a goddess.

Whilst as to the higher enthusiasm that was once excited by external things, the world in its present state could no more work itself up to this than a girl, after three seasons, could again go for dissipation to her dolls.

She might look back to the time of dolls with regret.

She might see that the interest they excited in her was, perhaps, far more pleasing than any she had found in love.

But the dolls would never rival her lovers, none the less.