a clean slate.

[webcammie]

"From the very beginning he attempted a new method of seduction, without any reference to past loves or even to the past itself: a clean slate. And so he planned everything down to the last detail, as if it were the final battle: new intrigues, new hopes in a woman who had already lived a full and complete life. It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself."

a clean slate.
new hopes even for a woman who could hope no more.
love as a state of grace not a coup de grace.
an end in itself.