Hylas and Stella and their Convention.
1. Neither is to be sovereign over the other.
2. Both are to be at once Lover and Beloved. [They knew something about the matter, these two, for all their jesting.]
3. There is to be no constraint of any kind.
4. They are to love for as long or as short a time as they please.
5. No charge of infidelity is ever to be brought on either side.
6. It is quite permitted to either or both to love somebody else, and yet to continue loving each other.
7. There is to be no jealousy, no complaints, no sulks.
8. They are to do and say exactly what they please.
9. Words like "faithfulness," etc., are taboo.