No woman knows by what she herself is won.
One thing there is, at all events, to which woman will always succumb:
tenderness. But remember, Dames, that
Tenderness is extremely difficult of simulation. Or rather,
Tenderness is so delicate and deep-seated a feeling, that few care to
attempt its simulation.
* * *
A woman who gives herself too freely is apt to regret the giving. In
time, too, she discovers that, as a matter of fact,
No woman can give her real self twice: one or other gift will prove to be
a loan. (And
It is always and only the first recipient that causes a woman's heart to
flutter, and often it flutters long.) 144
A second gift is generally a mortgage--if it is not a sale.