Although this quote is complementary to Oroonoko's wife, the most important line is: "who, if she were capable of love, one would swear she was languishing for some absent happy man ...as if he feared rape even by the God of the day” (Oroonoko 2337). In other words, there are several complications, including religious hypocrisy, within that quote (and keep in mind that these two quotes). are in the following order.) First of all, said the colonists, “but she denies us all with such noble contempt… she, who can give such eternal desires,” that is, Imoinda rejected the love of the colonists, and after being been denied, they mentioned , that, "if she were capable of love, one would swear she languished for some absent happy man... as if she feared rape even by the God of Day" (Oroonoko 2337). that is, after being denied something, they automatically blame the person who rejected them. In other words, Imoinda can give such 'enteral desires', but is apparently not 'capable of love'; Behn alludes precisely to the consciousness of a colonist of the New World, that is, to the way in which the colonists think and act according to