but in all fairness , it must be admitted that there were no such stories associated with stella or her generation and certainly no such stories in relationship to other contemporary residents of the first street house ( the exceptions , of course , are the playground stories concerning stella and antha they were accused of using their invisible friend to hurt other little children but there is nothing comparable about stella as an adult ) also the full story of antha 's nurse who died of a fall in rome was not then known to the talamasca and it is possible that stuart knew nothing about this incident at all nevertheless stuart was not fully prepared for such a mission and when one reviews his comments to the council and to other members it becomes obvious that stuart had fallen in love with stella mayfair he had fallen in love with her under the very worst circumstances that is , he had fallen in love with her image in her photographs , and with the stella who emerged from people 's descriptions of her she had become a myth to him and so , full of zeal and romance , he went to meet her , dazzled not only by her powers but by her proverbial charms .