Suppose that, woman loves a man ever so truly--she must not make any sign ?" "Any sign she might make would most certainly, in my opinion, lessen her greatest charm," he said.
"But," she persisted, "do you not think that is rather hard?
Why must a woman never evince a preference for the man she loves ?" "Woman should be wooed--never be wooer," said Lord Arleigh.
"Again I say you are hard, Norman.

According to you, a woman is to break her heart in silence and sorrow for a man, rather than give him the least idea that she cares for him." "I should say there is a happy medium between the Duchess of Gerolstein and a broken heart.

Neither men nor women can help their peculiar disposition, but in my opinion a man never more esteems a woman than when he sees she wants to win his love." He spoke with such perfect freedom from all consciousness that she knew the words could not be intended for her; nevertheless she had learned a lesson from them.
"I am like yourself, Norman," she said; "I do not care for the play at all; we will go home," and they left the house before the Grand Duchess had played her part..