So physically complete a youth has always a charm.

In its very presence there is a sort of sympathetic expression, such as comes with the sunshine.
Stephen always in Leonard's presence showed something of the common attitude.

His youth and beauty and sex all had their influence on her.
The influence of sex, as it is understood with regard to a later period of life, did not in her case exist; Cupid's darts are barbed and winged for more adult victims.

But in her case Leonard's masculine superiority, emphasised by the few years between their age, his sublime self-belief, and, above all, his absolute disregard for herself or her wishes or her feelings, put him on a level at which she had to look up to him.

The first step in the ladder of pre-eminence had been achieved when she realised that he was not on her level; the second when she experienced rather than thought that he had more influence on her than she had on him.