He was one of those men who consider themselves entitled to see, hear, and know every little detail of a woman's conduct, as a consequence of the circumstances of his engagement, and who consider themselves shorn of their privilege if anything be kept back.

If any gentleman had said a soft word to Clara eight years ago, that soft word ought to be repeated to him now.

I am afraid that these particular gentlemen sometimes hear some fibs; and I often wonder that their own early passages in the tournays of love do not warn them that it must be so.

When James has sat deliciously through all the moonlit night with his arm round Mary's waist, and afterwards sees Mary led to the altar by John, does it not occur to him that some John may have also sat with his arm round Anna's waist,--that Anna whom he is leading to the altar?
These things should not be inquired into too curiously; but the curiosity of some men on such matters has no end.

For the most part, women like telling,--only they do not choose to be pressed beyond their own modes of utterance.