The little witch put a mock malignity into her beautiful eyes, and Joseph, trembling with sincere horror, hurried out praying and ejaculating “wicked” as he went.
But one thought, one desire continued to recur and finally she asked, petitioning the Lord, that if it were possible she would love to prepare a special meal and have God share at her table.
She is a religious being, one of the spiritual protectors to whom the Buddhist faithful can turn in distress, and from a religious tradition that has no difficulty at all in happily combining divinity and sensuality.