daughter of Eve--ever quite looks back with remorse upon a semi-innocent
escapade. Yet

The man who thinks he can at any time extract himself from any feminine
entanglement that he may choose to have raveled, is a simpleton.

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The way of man with a maid may have been too wonderful for Agur;
now-a-days the way of a man with a married woman would puzzle a wiser
than he.

What is the attitude to be maintained towards the too complaisant spouse
of an honorable friend? That is a problem will puzzle weak men without
end. Of that fatal and fateful dilemma when a wife or a husband falls
victim to the wiles of another, there are, for the delinquent, two and
only two horns (and it is a moot question upon which it is preferable to
be impaled): Flight--either from the victor or the victrix. Yet

To some it is no anomaly to pray God's blessing upon a liaison. But
these folk are to be pitied; for

A clandestine love always works havoc--havoc to all three. (4)

(4) Cf. Platus: "Malus clandestinus est amor; damnum 'st merum."

Will men and women never learn what trouble they lay up in store for
themselves by breaking their plighted troths?

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