The best answer to the problem we can recommend to the
average woman is a careful and long study of a mirror.
As a result of this cogitation Leonore decided that she would nip
Peter's troublesomeness in the bud, that she would put up a sign,
"Trespassing forbidden;" by which he might take warning. Many women have
done the same thing to would-be lovers, and have saved the lovers much
trouble and needless expense. But Leonore, after planning out a dialogue
in her room, rather messed it when she came to put it into actual public
performance. Few girls of eighteen are cool over a love-affair. And so
it occurred thusly:
Leonore said to Peter one day, when he had dropped in for a cup of
afternoon tea after his ride with her:
"If I ask you a question, I wonder if you will tell me what you think,
without misunderstanding why I tell you something?"
"I will try."
"Well," said Leonore, "there is a very nice Englishman whom I knew in
London, who has followed me over here, and is troubling me.
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