You would have prayed yourself into a good humour, and the fellow would have got off." "Unless I had asked your advice," suggested Gianluca.
"And if you had, you would not have acted upon it--any more than you will write to Donna Veronica now, though I tell you that all women like to receive love-letters.

It is natural.

A woman is not satisfied with being told once a week that she is loved.

She likes to know it all the time--the oftener, the better.

Two letters of one page are better than one of two pages.