Word: cile
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...cile Sorel: An Autobiography (Roy; $3.50) is a romantic rhapsody of author for subject. Actress Sorel played just about everything from flirtatious Moliere heroines at the Comédie-Française to a clotheshorse walking down golden stairs amid the nudes at the Casino de Paris...
Naturally, Cécile eventually agrees to see him, and they decide that they are in love. But it is a talky affair, and Constant is cautious. Opportunities abound, but the hero fears "to chain myself" by bouncing to bed with the lady...
After 13 long years of this, Constant decides he has been a dolt and resolves to "risk all to win all." After 13 years, Cécile scarcely expects a change in tactics, and Constant knows it. Words lead to caresses, and the unsuspecting Cécile submits "as much from surprise as from rapture...
Poor Constant; he now feels as chained as he had once felt to his wife. So he goes back to his other sweetheart, Madame de Malbee. When that redoubtable woman learns about Cécile, the storm lasts all day and all night. It leaves Constant still suspended between the two women. He is too weak to escape from Madame de Malbee and too indecisive to marry Cécile...
With typical irresolution, Constant never finished Cécile, but life worked out an ending of sorts. Madame de Stael found a younger lover who was not so good a conversationalist. Constant married Charlotta, and thereupon fell in love with the beautiful Madame Recamier...