Part Four
THE OSSEOUS IN LOVE
¶ Bring to mind all the men and women you have known who waited ten, twenty or thirty years for the one they had given their hearts to. You will recall that they all had large bones or large joints for their bodies. Such people are always predominantly Osseous.
The loved one may marry but the bony man or woman remains faithful; it must be the one they want or none.
The Riddle Solved
¶ This fact accounts for some of the incongruous matches in middle or later life of old friends who seem to be unfitted to each other. Often one of them has waited many years for the other to consent, for children to grow up, or for Death to clear the way.
One Lover Through Life
¶ Osseous men and women are so constituted that it is practically impossible for them to love many times during a lifetime.
Bony people, even when young, have fewer sweethearts than other types. The large-boned boy or girl is usually ill at ease in the presence of the other sex, avoids social affairs, and does not attract love as early in life as other types do.