Janus too was seized by desire for the nymph. She responded to his sweet-talk "(verbis mollibus)" by attempting the same ruse; however, as Ovid points out in a characteristic moment of comedy and cruelty colliding, the two faces of Janus allow him to see what goes on behind, and Cranaë was unable to elude him. She was powerless ("nil agis", "you can do nothing," the poet repeats twice); the god "occupies her with his embrace," and after overpowering her to achieve his goal, treats the encounter as contractual: "In exchange for our intercourse "(pro concubitu)", the right "(ius)" of the hinge will be yours; take that as payment for the virginity you deposited" (6.119–128).