In Pym's pages the ladies were the most virtuous and proper of their sex (though dreadfully persecuted), but he merely told you so at the beginning, and now and again afterwards to fill up, and then allowed them to act with what may be called rashness, so that the story did not really suffer.

Before Tommy was nineteen he changed all that.

Out went this because she would not have done it, and that because she could not have done it.

Fathers might now have taken a lesson from T.Sandys in the upbringing of their daughters.

He even sternly struck out the diminutives.