Page:Side talks with girls (1895).djvu/202

190 you in the evening let him come where all the rest are, mother and those bad boys, and the other girls—let him come right into your home-life, see what it is like and how you fill your place; in time your interests will become his. You hang your head when I say this—you think you would rather see him alone; well, it is not such a long time since mother was a girl herself, and she will manage, before he goes, that you shall have fifteen minutes, or half an hour, to talk over with him whatever seems of most importance to you. That half-hour will appear more to both of yon than all the rest of the evening, but do you think it would have been counted so valuable if you two had been alone all the time?

It is possible that your sweetheart is going to escort you to a concert; then let him take you from the very midst of your family, your mother wishing that you may have a good time, and, my dear girl, if he always thinks of you as surrounded by care and consideration, his self-respect, when he is honored with the charge of you, will keep him from doing or saying anything that would not be done or said in the home nest.

It is possible that your sweetheart may never have had any sisters to tell him of the little things