After long years of trials, of unbroken love, the woman Armen chose and knew had been raped or seduced by men who ruined her body. She, transformed, no, deformed, into a manlike, and unsweetened, bitter woman, having lost her nature, her cuteness, her purpose.
After so much whoring, willing and unwilling, she no longer could lay with Armen even within marriage. Though, not knowing, Armen continued in love, though the mother forbidding such union with a man of such purity, virginity, and holiness.