 On the other hand, she experienced excitement from gazing at the starry night sky at the fort.This is described in an erotic manner, as if her adultery took place not with another man, but with the night itself in a temporarily empowering liberation from her constricting, married, subservient, and following life.At the beginning of the story, Janine is described as basing her existence on her husband, that is, he needs her and so she has a reason to exist.