This aspect of the promise and peril of strangers has enticed storytellers - from the rapture of " Brief Encounter" and " Before Sunrise" to the ruin of " Strangers on a Train" .
In his early fifties, Rumi wrote " Masnavi, " which shifts from ecstatic expressions of divine love to verses that guide others to discover it for themselves.
As Jo waved her hands and gave a sigh of rapture, the family went off into a gale of merriment, and Mr. Laurence laughed till they thought he'd have an apoplectic fit.
It's often said that life imitates art in this case. Hedy's life seemed to follow the plot of Ecstasy.A young wife, an older husband and an extramarital passion.