The parents then married their daughter off to the first available man, but the affair had left a scar. This was not the frigidity one might expect. On the contrary, it was “an alert and conscious, a more than mature ... an erotic atmosphere”[24] which made the girl unusually “beguiling” to men. Still, she was not happy in her marriage, and the explanation given is that she had been physically awakened without knowing love. Thus, she was drawn to her husband also without love, and their marriage was the “exchange of a conventional form of excitement.” Once she had obtained a divorce and married someone whose appeal for her was complete, not merely physical, she “became another person. This voluptuous glitter was all gone, she was just sweet and charming.”[25] While the handling of the episode is somewhat hasty and superficial, the argument it presents against pre-marital lesbian experience is more subtle and rather more convincing than many one meets in anti-variant fiction. A sterner condemnation of lesbianism came from Herbert Eulenberg in “Der Maler Rayski,” a novelette in the volume _Casanova’s Letzte Abenteuer_ (1929), in which he presents a domineering lesbian woman of almost sadistic ruthlessness. This titled landowner has long kept a younger cousin-companion in lesbian bondage. She loathes men, but must have an heir to inherit her properties, and hits upon the device of inducing her beloved to bear a child whom she can then adopt. Since the sire must be of good stock, she selects a contemporary artist whose qualifications please her, summons him to paint portraits of her and her companion, and contrives to get the latter married to him by stressing the excellence of the girl’s financial prospects. The couple fall genuinely in love, and, under the influence of normal love, the girl blooms from strained pallor into perfect health and loveliness. As soon as a child is expected, however, the older woman secures a series of such advantageous commissions for the artist that he must be absent until after his child’s birth. She then denies him access to the infant—what right has any man to the child in whose begetting he has played but a momentary part, while the woman has carried it for nine months and must nurse it for as many more? To clinch the matter she tells him of the long years of intimacy between herself and his wife. Now he feels that his bride’s innocence was all pretence, and that anyone who could have deceived him about so black a past can never be trusted. He makes off, proudly refusing any monetary settlement then or later, and deteriorates into a worthless drifter because of this devastating blow to his self-respect. The two women remain together, apparently happy, since motherhood provides the girl with some normal interest.