Let him meet with a young women once and he would approach her with an air of kindly familiarity, not unmixed with pleading, which would result in most cases in a tolerant acceptance.

If she showed any tendency to coquetry he would be apt to straighten her tie, or if she "took up" with him at all, to call her by her first name.

If he visited a department store it was to lounge familiarly over the counter and ask some leading questions.

In more exclusive circles, on the train or in waiting stations, he went slower.
If some seemingly vulnerable object appeared he was all attention to pass the compliments of the day to lead the way to the parlor car, carrying her grip, or, failing that, to take a seat next her with the hope of being able to court her to her destination.

Pillows, books, a footstool, the shade lowered; all these figured in the things which he could do.