323. 6. The marriage of a widower with a virgin likewise differs in state from the marriage of a widower with a widow. The reason is that the widower has been introduced into married life already, while the virgin still needs to be introduced; and yet conjugial love perceives and feels its pleasure and delight in a mutual introduction. An inexperienced husband and inexperienced wife perceive and feel always something new in the states that befall them, on which account they encounter a kind of continual introduction and consequent lovely progression. The state is different in the marriage of a widower with a virgin. The virgin wife feels an inner yearning, which in the man has passed. But in marriages of this sort there is much variety and diversity, likewise in the marriage between a widower and widow; and therefore we cannot add anything more specific beyond this general observation.
