Like women sitting for two hours under the marcelling irons only to wonder two days later how soon they would need another appointment.

Rose wondered if there was something wrong with him in the trouser department. There was a thing her father used to say about boys pulling their foreskin back or it wouldn't work properly when the time came.

[F]or louing me, by my troth it is no addition to her wit, nor no great argument of her follie, for I will be horribly in loue with her, […]

1890, Rudyard Kipling, The Phantom 'Rickshaw: And Other Tales