Why did they think it such a shame to love any one till they had been given permission?
It is so odd to think of waiting for permission to fall in love.

Was it because men in those days were angry when girls loved them?
That is not the way women would feel, I am sure, or men either, I think, now.

I don't understand it at all.

That will be one of the curious things about the women of those days that you will have to explain to me.

I don't believe Edith Bartlett was so foolish as the others." After sundry ineffectual attempts at parting, she finally insisted that we must say good night.