Most women do wince when a man really verges on his true conclusions concerning love in the abstract, however satisfactory his love in the concrete may be to them.

"I am sure they love each other," she affirmed.
"Yes, I think they do," replied Mr.Pierce.

"But five years in the world before meeting would have possibly brought quite a different conclusion.
And now, my dear, if we are not going to have the young people eloping in the yacht by themselves, we had better leave both the subject and the room, for we have kept them fifteen minutes as it is.".