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more a matter of luck than merit. Ruth reins in her passion and ends their
engagement. She is pressured by her parents, who worry that she is now past
mistakenly believes Martin is turning into a socialist—and thus becoming a
threat to her class privilege (actually, he is an anti-socialist).
During their many months of sexual abstinence, Martin accepted Ruth’s
On a picnic, when Ruth’s lips become stained red from eating cherries, Martin
reaches the startling “discovery that she is capable of sexual des