If by any chance the divulgence leaks out—how the girl beshrews the mischance! For, though the man may hold his peace, she knows that she gives him to think.
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It takes two to make a quarrel. Yes: and it takes two to make the reconciliating kiss.
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XII. On Engagements and on Being Engaged
Chalepon to mae philaesai
Chalepon de kai philaesai
—Anacreon.
Perhaps the pleasantest and most satisfactory period in a girl's life is the time of her first youthful engagement:
Never is a girl more jubilant, never more buoyant, never so charming, so blithesome, or so debonair, as when she is the gazetted about-to-be bride of the man of her girlish choice. For
During her engagement, a girl is owned and petted; and
Ownership and petting are dear to women—whether young or old:
Ownership is proof, at all events, that she is of value to the man—else the man would not sought to make her his; and