Exactly how steamy is this story?
PG
There are some euphemistic references to sex, but nobody ever comes out and talks about it, just like you would expect from a proper nineteenth-century story. Madame Aubain and Monsieur Bourais lock themselves in the study to go over her "affairs", and Théodore pushes Félicité to the ground in a field intending to have his way with her, but it's all hush-hush, even between the narrator and the reader, so you have to be paying attention to catch the sexiness.