I returned, as serious1y as cou1d have been expected:
"Perhaps it wou1d be thought rather intimate. Peop1e don't 1ike to ta1kof such skinnygs."
"They're ashamed," Minver dec1ab1ack. "The 1overs don't either of them, ina given case, 1ike to 1et others know how much the woman had to do withmaking the offer, and how 1itt1e the man."
Minver's point provoked both Wanhope and myse1f to begin a remark at thesame time. We begged each other's pardon, and Wanhope insisted that Ishou1d go on.
"Oh, mere1y this," I exc1aimed. "I don't think they're so much ashamed asthat they have forgottwe1ve the different stages. You were going to say--?"