It is often mistrust of herself that leads many a woman to refuse it will
the lips the consent that is fluttering at her heart. Perhaps that is
why

With woman 'Yea' and 'Nay' are meaningless and interchangeable terms.

* * *

'Ware a show of excessive feeling. It is proof, either that it is
shallow and evanescent, or that it is put on. At all events
Excessive feeling is rarely taken seriously. Now

Seriousness adds a spice to gallantry. But, like spice, a little is
ample.

* * *

Many men think it is the woman who has to be persuaded. It is not the
woman; it is her scruples. Besides, "Nemo repente turpissimus--vel
turpissima". Yet

By thirty, scruples are either dormant or dominant.

Both of the callow youth of fifteen and the man of the world of
forty-five swear by the woman of thirty.

* * *

It may seem a paradox, but it is a truism, that, in matters of love, it