“We gave each other, with our bodies, the commitment that neither of us dared put into words. We mated. There is no other word for it. We were equal – man and woman; neither asking what we could not give. And later, when the fury of passion had died away into peace and we were content to lie together, still part of each other, I remember thinking that whatever happened later I would always have something that could not be taken from me or lost. An unchangeable moment, encapsulated in time.”
