tempter

But the tempter came, and from that time she began to droop.

The tempter was sure that the battle was won, and smiled contentedly.

The tempter, in making a second attack, became more positive.

Whoever was the tempter, that is not the thing; nor what the temptation.

That way, whispered the Tempter, was too straight and simple.

Aye, more to you than the world, said the tempter, a womans love.

“Think it over––and watch him mighty close tonight,” advised the tempter.

"There's Monte Carlo; you might pull down a tidy sum," said the tempter.

Once you yield, be it ever so little, to the tempter, you are lost.

So woman has something more to do than to beat back the tempter.