Why, we actually have in our libraries books, by authors of your day, written for no other purpose than to discuss the question whether, under any conceivable circumstances, a woman might, without discredit to her sex, reveal an unsolicited love.

All this seems exquisitely absurd to us, and yet we know that, given your circumstances, the problem might have a serious side.

When for a woman to proffer her love to a man was in effect to invite him to assume the burden of her support, it is easy to see that pride and delicacy might well have checked the promptings of the heart.

When you go out into our society, Mr.West, you must be prepared to be often cross-questioned on this point by our young people, who are naturally much interested in this aspect of old-fashioned manners."[1] "And so the girls of the twentieth century tell their love." "If they choose," replied Dr.Leete.

"There is no more pretense of a concealment of feeling on their part than on the part of their lovers.
Coquetry would be as much despised in a girl as in a man.