§ 126
To revert to the concept of fetishism one may use the mountain-climbing symbolism of the love episode and say that almost anything on the ascent may be used as, and become habitual as, a fetish capable of causing the husband to leave his wife on the trail and hurry forward to the peak that has a thousand ecstatic views.
She may use any of a number of suggestive arguments or mannerisms or actions to convince him if she can that it is his duty to leave her, no matter how harmful may be his abandoning her for his own erotic abandon.
She may tell him that he must get there so as not to miss the setting (or rising) sun, or a rainbow, or a nuance of cloud forms, obscured from where they are, halfway up the trail.
Of course, he too, unless he has been convinced of the childishness of his act, may think there is some reason why he cannot or should not wait for her, halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths, perhaps, of the way up. At the very boulder he may be persuaded to take this last jump alone, and indeed it were a pity if, having brought her so far, he should leave her, walled by the boulder from at least half the complete view. Some women would petulantly begin the descent, forever unknowing what was the husband’s experience in looking over the half of the circumference of horizon impossible for the wife to see.