"It only shows," said he, with a fine spirit of justice, "how all but impossible it is to legislate where there are women!" "I do not object," he added; "I hope I am too just to object to the exercise of their natural inclinations.

All I ask from them is discreetness." "Ay," said Adrian, whose discreetness was a marvel.
"No gadding about in couples," continued the baronet, "no kissing in public.

Such occurrences no boy should witness.

Whenever people of both sexes are thrown together, they will be silly; and where they are high-fed, uneducated, and barely occupied, it must be looked for as a matter of course.

Let it be known that I only require discreetness." Discreetness, therefore, was instructed to reign at the Abbey.