DOLLY LEVI: Horace, you can’t deny it, your wife would have to be a SOMEBODY. Answer me: am I a somebody?
VANDERGELDER: You are . . . you are . . . A wonderful woman.
DOLLY LEVI: Oh, you’re partial.
VANDERGELDER: Dolly, everybody knows that you could do anything you wanted to do Read the rest of this entry »
Yonder a maid and her wight
Go whispering by,
War’s annals will fade into night
Ere their story die.
It is LOVELY WHEN DUKES FIND their Duchesses. Or any kind of lord or lordling, baron or baronet. But making a magic proposal is not the monopoly of a titled or educated man. The wonders of falling in love and wanting to marry are available to all comers, high and low alike. It’s a real- life drama of dreams come true for every new couple. Read the rest of this entry »
Strange fits of passion I have known,
And I will dare to tell
But in the lover’s ear alone
What once to me befell.
But the process by which he winkles it out and drops it into the ear of his chosen one is shrouded in mystery. Proposing is one of the world’s greatest secrets, like sex. Everyone knows that everyone else does it, but they never know exactly how and when. This is why, since you can’t be doing it yourself all the time, there’s a constant fascination with reading and talking about it. Read the rest of this entry »
