Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray

Miss Belmont, nine-and-twenty, fresh and fair, ignorant-clever (after the known feminine fashion), _rusee_ to the finger-tips, with a dragon reputation for virtue and a resolute will to keep it, was dangerous to the peace of mind of masculine twenty-one. She made Paul her bondslave. She intoxicated him with a touch, and sobered him with a face of sudden marble. She played the matron and the sister with him, and drove him mad between whiles.

Here is one scene out of hundreds, all acted to the Solitary's mind as if the past were back again.