Marlene then had been alive and vital to his confused thoughts and anxious hands, a woman of human lusts and needs, nothing like the insubstantial being he cradled in his arms now.

• 对他而言，玛琳实实在在的存在在他的怀抱中，对爱充满了渴望和需要，而不再是一个脆弱的生命了。