Crossword-Solution: IRRESISTIBILITY 15 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 20

But, alas! my dream of universal irresistibility was but short-lived, for next afternoon, as William and I sat out at some cafe together, I found myself the object of chaff.

This was how she had set about doing her best to escape her passionate bondage to him! Somehow, in declaring to Grace and to herself the unseemliness of her infatuation, she had grown a convert to its irresistibility.

Thus an illusion of that day--as of this--was exploded, namely the irresistibility of economic solidarity.

But why not have told the truth? Was it possible, she wondered, that her wretched vanity had survived her renunciation of the world? Why had she so resented just now the doubt cast on that irresistibility which had blighted and cranked her whole life? “Well, my dear,” said the Warden, “I confess that I am amazed--astounded.” Again he adjusted his glasses, and looked at her.

Had he been a flirt, convinced of his own irresistibility, he would perhaps have found in her words a very transparent encouragement; but he was far from discerning any such meaning in Edith’s words.