Exultate

For her exultating her supremacy, in pregnancy, childbirth, nursing, had cut him out: made him feel not only irrelevant but, so often, in the way; his wife looked at him and felt the obligation of love, for of course she did love him, while another kind of love, physical, instinctual, as intimate as her own flesh, pulled at her.

I cannot tell you how my heart expands and exultates within the opening glory of this autumn day.

My heart exultates, thirsts for more.