Wherein female desire is revealed to be the murderous and unnatural thing it is, by way of learned males first conferring amongst themselves and then educating the gullible (but ever so proper) narrator. Fortunately, she has the good sense to furnish her tale with many a stately sentence while also keeping her recounting of the main events quite concise for her time. - Not all writerly choices that would be encouraged today, but they balance each other out nicely enough to be remembered, I guess.