The world would be a much harder place than it already is for women to live in if men concealed their feelings.

A reverent and assiduous study of the nobler sex leads the student to believe that they imagine they conceal them.

But it is women who early in life are taught to acquire this art, at any rate when they are bored.

Half the happy married women of our acquaintance would be the widows of determined suicides if women allowed it to appear when they were bored as quickly as men do.
Wentworth had no idea that he was not an impassable barrier of reserve.
He often said of himself: "I am a very reserved man, I know.

It is a fault of character.