I was reading Dorothy Sayers a few nights ago and found this interesting quote. The following is from a fictional biographical note on the person of Lord Peter Whimsey by his fictional uncle:
"His latest eccentricity has been to fall in love with that girl whom he cleared of the charge of poisoning her former lover. She refused to marry him, as any woman of character would. Gratitude and humiliating inferiority complexes are no foundation for matrimony; the position was false from the start. Peter had the sense this time to take my advice. 'My boy,' said I, 'what was wrong for you twenty years back is right now. It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt. Begin again from the beginning--I warn you that you will need all the self-discipline you have ever learnt.'
"Well, he has tried. I don't think I have ever seen such patience. The girl has brains and character and honesty' but he has got to teach her how to take, which is far more difficult than learning to give. I think they will find one another, if they can keep their passions from running ahead of their wills. He does realize, I know, that in this case there can be no consent but free consent."
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