The introduction to this book is aptly entitled “In the Garden of Delights.” The husband and wife authors understand the Song as “a poem about the sexual awakening of a young woman and her lover.” The woman is very young, barely past puberty. The lovers tryst in an idealized setting—a kind of Eden—where they discover the delights of love. But unlike the Eden story, in which loss of innocence is fraught with consequences, their adventure brings only the joy of discovery. Yet, even in this enchanted garden, there are problems. The lovers meet by night in secret and separate at dawn. It is thus apparent that they are not married. The situation evokes the old dilemma of love without marriage versus marriage without love and which is worse.