But
By what men are won, most women seem thoroughly to comprehend.
By what women are won, few men know. Perhaps
No woman knows by what she herself is won.
One thing there is, at all events, to which woman will always succumb:
tenderness. But remember, Dames, that
Tenderness is extremely difficult of simulation. Or rather,
Tenderness is so delicate and deep-seated a feeling, that few care to
attempt its simulation.
* * *
A woman who gives herself too freely is apt to regret the giving. In
time, too, she discovers that, as a matter of fact,
No woman can give her real self twice: one or other gift will prove to be
a loan. (And
It is always and only the first recipient that causes a woman's heart to
flutter, and often it flutters long.) 144
A second gift is generally a mortgage--if it is not a sale.
A mortgage is difficult to bind. For
There is a statute of limitations in love as there is in law. Nor is the
former to be set aside by bond.
That pair is in a parlous state when either party discovers that the
title was not properly searched.
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