"I thought it was a man's place to speak up loud and plain and say what he had to propose." "Oh, dear!" wailed Agatha, wringing her thin hands, her face a mirror of distress.

"Oh, dear, I very much fear you will lose him.

Why, Katherine, after a man has been to see you a certain number of times, and evidenced enough interest in you, my dear, there are a thousand strictly womanly ways in which you can lend his enterprise a little, only a faint amount of encouragement, just enough to allow him to recognize that he is not--not--er--repulsive to you." "But how many times must he come, and how much interest must he evince ?" asked Kate.
"I can scarcely name an exact number," said Agatha.

"That is personal.
You must decide for yourself what is the psychological moment at which he is to be taken.

Have you even signified to him that you--that you--that you could be induced, even to CONTEMPLATE marriage ?" "Oh, yes," said Kate, heartily.