He seemed to be aware that in speaking to any lady, be she who she might, he was only exercising his undoubted privilege as a man.

He never hummed and hawed and shook in his shoes as though the majesty of womanhood were too great for his encounter.

There are such men, and many of them, who carry this dread to the last day of their long lives.

I have often wondered what women think of men who regard women as too awful for the free exercise of open speech.
"Mr.Fitzgerald," she said, accepting the hand which he offered to her, but resuming her own very quickly, and then standing before him in all the dignity which she was able to assume, "I quite concurred with my daughter that it was right that she should see you, as you insisted on such an interview; but you must excuse me if I interrupt it.

I must protect her from the embarrassment which your--your vehemence may occasion her." "Lady Desmond," he replied, "you are quite at liberty, as far as I am concerned, to hear all that passes between us.