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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Still, that does not alter the present circumstances; and I see no other plan but that I had first formed, for you to accompany me and my servant, in disguise." The girl stood hesitating, twining her fingers over each other, restlessly. "It is so strange, so unmaidenly," she murmured. "Then, Claire," Philip said, taking her hands in his, "you must give me the right to protect you.
"Perhaps my mother's people wouldn't let her say such things when she was a young girl, and then she began to be an actress, and was so busy she never had time to learn much about children and duty and that sort of thing. But I won't be unmaidenly any more, dear Heppie at least, if I can help it if you'll only do me one great favour." "What is it?" Miss Hepburn inquired cautiously.
There was a troubled look on her countenance, for only that day she had heard bad news. A horse had run away with her lover and flung him so violently against a post as to injure him severely. In the evening paper she read the account, and now she was debating whether or not it would be unmaidenly for her to call on her lover.
The music was made for you but then, I think all music was made for you." "Leave the music out of it, if you please," she said, impatiently. "Your talents make you modest! No doubt you consider it unmaidenly in me to have referred to the serenade before you spoke of it; but I am not one to cast down my eyes and let it pass.
It was all very unmaidenly, of course; but maidenly is a word love and life and desire may crowd from the page. Perhaps she would not have thrown it after all the little note she had written had it not been that when she went over for more copy-paper she stood for a minute looking out the window. Even on Dearborn Street the seductiveness of spring was in the air.
She didn't really want him to make love to her, that was a notion altogether too unmaidenly, but she did feel as if an expression of affection from somebody would be very comforting. She turned to John Wendell, who rode beside her, and gave him a more generous smile than it had been his lot to receive while Sydney was the possessor of those agreeable anticipations of the early afternoon.
Oh, Dick," she continued, taking his hand in hers, "do not think me forward or unmaidenly in speaking thus to you, dear; I am not. But do you think I do not know what your feeling is toward me; do you think I do not know that you love me?
'Surely there is nothing singular in my helping you a little with your riding? Though it struck me that it would have been very singular if I had. 'Perhaps not singular, she murmured, looking modestly down her nose; 'but will you think me very unmaidenly if I confess that, to me, those lessons have developed a dawning danger? 'You are perfectly safe on the grey, I said.
She grew nervous and self-abusive, declared that she had been unmaidenly, and made herself as wretched as possible. She dared not think what would be the result of her letter. Would Wallace despise her for unsexing herself and almost proposing to him? Would he, with his exaggerated ideas of honor still claim that it would be unmanly to accept the love which she had so freely offered him?
And yet had he glimpsed that which should have been so obvious he would have been startled, somewhat shocked, and would have grieved over his friend's empty-headed daughter, holding her unmaidenly when she was but dallying with dreams which mean so much to all maidens.
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