If you can summon tears at pleasure, a few would not be amiss; a gentle shower, not enough to make the nose and eyes red or to detract from your beauty.

Men cannot resist beauty and tears.

Never mar their effect with anything bordering on sobs and hysteria; such violent manifestations being neither refined nor artistic.

A scene in which one person does the talking must be limited in time.

No ordinary man can keep at white heat fifteen minutes; if his victim says nothing, he will soon exhaust himself.