Watts, wasn't it?" If you are tactful, you
should soon win the old lady's favor completely, so that before
long she will tell you all about her rheumatism and what grampaw
can and can't eat.
Finally Miss Doe arrives. Her first words are, "Have you been
waiting long? Hilda didn't tell me you were here," to which you
reply, "No--I just arrived." She then says, "Shall we go in the
drawing-room?" The answer to this is, "For God's sake, yes!" In a
few minutes you find yourself alone in the drawing-room with the
lady of your choice and the courtship proper can then begin.
The best way to proceed is gradually to bring the conversation
around to the subject of the "modern girl." After your
preliminary remarks about tonsils and adenoids have been
thoroughly exhausted, you should suddenly say, "Well I don't
think girls--nice girls--are really that way." She replies, of
course, "WHAT way?" You answer, "Oh, the way they are in these
modern novels. This "petting,' for instance." She says, "WHAT
"petting'?" You walk over and sit down on the sofa beside her.
"Oh," you say, "these novelists make me sick--they seem to think
that in our generation every time a young man and woman are left
alone on a lounge together, they haven't a thing better to do
than put out the light and "pet.' It's disgusting, isn't it?"
"Isn't it?" she agrees and reaching over she accidentally pulls
the lamp cord, which puts out the light.
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