The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter Love Quotes Page 1

Notice how, at the age of fourteen, the wife considers her husband to be her noble lord. However, as she matures even just over the following year, the wife develops a more sophisticated understanding of the equality and sharing in their relationship.

At this moment, the wife may be refusing the husband's affections because she's uncomfortable with her new identity as a wife, with a "Lord" for a husband.

It seems that, now that she's fifteen, a year has passed in which her desires and affections have, let's say, "blossomed."