It is one of the very few golden rules omitted from Solomon's Proverbs.

"Can we?
It would be pleasant." "It you will permit me," he blushed and stammered, wondering at her ready acquiescence, "if you will permit me to call upon you sometimes--here, if you will allow me, or anywhere else.

You know my name.

I am by profession an artist, and I have a studio close at hand in Tite Street." "To call upon me here ?" she repeated.
Now, when one is a tutor, and has been reading with a pupil for two years, one regards that pupil with a feeling which may not be exactly parental, but which is unconventional.

If Arnold had said, "Behold me! May I, being a young man, call upon you, a young woman ?" she would have replied: "No, young man, that can never be." But when he said, "May I, your pupil, call sometimes upon you, my tutor ?" a distinction was at once established by which the impossible became possible.
"Yes," she said, "I think you may call.