How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
Except when a person acts like Cecil, and worries about his own manliness, and thinks it a good thing to show a girl he's manly, because girls love strong men, of course they do, they love it when someone hold their wrists too hard, and makes their lips bleed, and crushes out all their lace and froth and gleam. (32.252)
Even the best boys can be a bit scary to girls, and Briony scolds Eldric for acting lustfully toward her like Cecil did. Again she feels fearful in response to the aggressiveness of a lustful man. Eldric, however, has shown her loving sensuality before, and she desires the same from him again.