If Eve believes she has been sufficiently forewarned, she may go, “for thy stay, not free, absents thee more.” But Adam eats of the fruit, to accompany Eve in the sin that brings death into the world, “not deceived,” says Milton, taking his cue from Saint Paul (1 Tim. Why does Eve in our time fall for madness couched in kindly feelings, or in terms of abstract “theories” that make no sense and that bear no relation to reality? Shall Eve’s son, deprived of his father through her fault or the father’s fault or both, “marry” another man? And Adam, who is not deceived, will be to blame.