The girls I have seen before have been quite different from that.

Some of them always giggle when you speak to them, others have not got a word to say for themselves; and it is awfully hard work talking to them even for a single dance.
Still, I like them better than the giggling ones." "You see, Ralph, girls brought up in a town are naturally different to one like Mabel.

They go to school, and are taught to sit upright and to behave discreetly, and to be general unnatural.

Mabel has been brought up at home and allowed to do as she liked, and she has consequently grown up what nature intended her to be.

Perhaps some day all girls will be allowed the same chance of being natural that boys have, and backboards and other contrivances for stiffening them and turning them into little wooden figures will be unknown.