I don't know exactly how to translate this phrase from French:
"Quand une femme, encore belle, rentre au mauvais moment dans la chambre de sa fille, déjà irrésistible".
It's from a french author, called Jean d'Ormesson, very popular among my sisters and mother long time ago.
In english, the above quote can be translated as:
"When a woman, still attractive, enters in her daughter's room, already irresitible".
Jean D'Ormesson belonged to french the upper bourgeoisie, with catholic roots and very conservative. In his works he reflected the tensions between correct education and secret passions.
Catholics realy fears sexuality. It's the sin among all the sins.
But, paradoxically, this demonization of sex makes, for many Catholics, the most irresistible thing in life.
At that time, some decades ago, sex within Catholic families was practiced in secret without any education.
At school, Catholic teenagers only spoke about sex, for years. It was an obsession. Then, when they discover Romantic litterature, all of them wanted to be, of course, the Evil.
Baudelaire use to say:
"The devil's greatest trick is to make us think that he does not exist."
I wonder if for a Catholic girl, the devil is also an irresistible sex symbol
Passion starts in the mind, and the unconscious and the archetypes stage those passions as an eternal struggle between good and evil. But it has been impossible for me throughout my life, to extract that confession from a Catholic girl, among other things because Catholic girls can have sex, but they can never talk about it.
Anyway,our heroine thought that her mother would not return until the day after her trip. Obviously, she was wrong.
In Jean D Ormesson's book I don't know who is in the room with the girl. French authors can be very wicked. I leave it to your imagination.
Have a nice weekend.
Kind regards,
Javier