Verily, verily, why doth a spinster console herself with a cat in her loneliness?
Even because this is the only thing which can be found to resemble a man!
CHAPTER THREE
Lo, while a man courteth a maiden he faith unto her:
“Beloved, I adore the waves and frivols of thy hair! The neatness of thy waistline is my delight; and what is that subtile sachet which maketh thee to remind me always of the rose of morning?”
But in his heart he saith:
“Yet, when we are married, then shall I teach her not to wear false ringlets, and the imported complexion which she now putteth on shall she abjure.
“Verily from the using of that awful scent shall I break her, and from the wearing of corsets shall I rescue her! For we shall then be one, and I shall be that one!”
And while a damsel seeketh to allure a man she saith unto him: