She plays chess from the passions and I play it from logic and she usually wins....

She plays chess from the passions and I play it from logic and she usually wins. Once, I took her queen and she hit me."
Though, he recalled, not sufficiently brutally to require that he tie her wrists together with his belt, force her to kneel and beat her until she toppled over sideways. She raised a strangely joyous face to him; the pallor of her skin and the almost miraculous lustre of her eyes startled and even awed him.