With such fantastic business? To resume:

He acted like the boy he was. I smiled—

Against the flaming rage that burned his face—

My mocking smile, he thought, the Don Juan

Upcurved my lips. I read his very thought

Between words spoken; words that he suppressed:

It was that I was glad that Claire was ill

Because of that male mood when love of man

Finds sustenance where suffering lays low

The object of desire: If she suffers,