‘That's him to a T,’ she would murmur; or, ‘Just wait till he reads this’; or, ‘Ah, won't that put him in a wax!’

Don't make the decision yourself and presume too much.

Norman’s interpretation of sex as a transformation from dailiness to transcendence is persuasive and important. It might be more persuasive, more amenable to Pat, and open up a richer sexual life for Norm, if there were less reliance on consummation and more appreciation of tease and foreplay. That is the issue between Pat and Norm, and that is the issue where Norm’s life could be enlarged by more appreciation of his own sonliness. Tease and foreplay are in the mode of sonship, the mode of expectancy, and, as such, are authentic and pleasurable in themselves, not just as promises of consummation.

Abelmosk, Abelmosch, or Abelmusk, the Syrian mallow, or musk okro, a species of hibiscus (H. abelmoschus).