A person overhears two younger males speaking on a ferry. One pursues love even when it kills him, because it properly might: “His face was pale, and he was skinny and worn, clearly from an excessive amount of lovemaking.” The opposite, soberer, seeks “a rustic with out ladies” the place a person can dwell in peace.
The ferry lands, the passengers disembark, and the listener, curious, follows the 2 buddies deep right into a wooden, to a impolite cottage fronted by a “weathered plaque” studying, “Hut of a Sensuous Hermit.” Greeting the younger males as welcome guests is an previous bent-backed girl, “to whose face the years had given a refined magnificence.” They’ve come for a motive: “Neither of us understands the methods of sensuous love deeply sufficient but… You’re so skilled, gained’t you please inform us the story of your life?”
What a narrative, what a life!
