Dorothea Deakin

“ This my calm, immovable Rosette?
"You said you liked a woman to be womanly, Jerry. You said you admired the Laura-Matilda kind of girl. You were talking at me all the time!"
I stared at her in amazement.
"You are the most womanly woman I have ever known," said I slowly. "But I didn't mean what you mean, Rosette."
"Yes, you did. Besides, how do you know exactly what I meant that you meant? You said you liked a woman to be clinging! You know you did. I'll take jolly good care that I never cling to—" She stopped in time. ”

“ She could do everything the boys could do, just a little bit better, and it was then that Myles (he was just twenty-one) found out that women ought to be womanly. His pride was wounded and he began to snub Primula and make her life a misery to her. She hated sarcasm and didn't understand it, and she began to fret about it."
"'Myles hates me,' said she to me one day. 'What can I do to make him like me again?' 'Turn Laura-Matilda,' said I. Poor child she looked completely in the dark. ”

“ You like a woman to faint with joy when you throw her a kind word. It shows her sensibility."
"I'm going home," said I quietly. "I shall not stay here to be abused and libeled. You know the kind of woman I like best. I'm going home."
She broke into a pretty, infectious laugh.
"Don't go, Jerry. I'm better now. And I want to tell you about Primula and my brother Myles." ”