_on_ time rather than _before_ time in future, and to be civil if you
happened to be late--since you are only a woman and can't be expected to
appreciate the value of promptness!

This is the way all our associations in life work together for good _to
develop our latencies_, to strengthen our weak points. _The wiser we are
the less emotion we waste in resenting the developing process--the more
readily we see the point and take the resolution hinted at._ You see you
and your friend had had other such experiences as the one described--you
had been late before when So-and-so condoned the matter and said
nothing. _He let you off so easily that you never thought of resolving
not to be late again._ You _felt_ that he had been displeased but you
depended upon your niceness to make it all right again, and it never
occurred to you to call yourself to account and _resolve_ that it
should not happen so again. You were _too heedless_ to take a hint, so
you had to have a kick.

You may set this down as a rule without exceptions: _That all the kicks
you get from relatives or friends come after you have ignored repeated
hints from your own inner consciousness and them_. You have gone on
excusing yourself _without correcting the fault_ (perhaps without seeing
it) until the Law of Attraction stopped hinting and administered a kick.
And if _one_ kick will not cause you to develop that weak point the Law
of Attraction will bring you other and yet harder kicks on the same
line. _You will attract_ worse experiences of the same sort.

It is this very law which makes married folks (or other relatives or
friends) quarrel. Adam refuses Eve's _hints_ about neatness, and Eve
kicks--harder and harder. Eve refuses Adam's hints and he gets to
kicking. _It_ ALWAYS _takes two to start the kicking_, AND EITHER ONE