258. (22) Of these incidental reasons for coldness, a third is declaration by the wife of her love and discourse by her about it. Among angels in heaven husbands do not encounter refusal or resistance on the part of their wives as happens in some cases on earth. Among angels in heaven one also finds discourse by wives about love and not the same silence that one finds in some cases on earth. I am not permitted to present the reasons for these differences, however, because it would not be appropriate for me to do so. Nevertheless, they may be seen from the testimony of the wives of angels who freely confide these reasons to their husbands - testimony presented in four of the narrative accounts following the chapters, by the three wives in the hall on which I saw what seemed to be golden rain,* and by the seven who were sitting in a rose garden.** I have included these accounts in order to disclose everything connected with conjugial love, which is the subject we are considering here both in general and in particular. * See nos. 155[r] and 208. ** See nos. 293 and 294.