A young fellow sees her for the first time. And all time after that is unalterably changed . . .
After a month or so, the young man makes a quiet visit to the young lady's Dad. No fanfare, no one knows but the two of them. The young man tells him that he has had the opportunity, through circumstances that brought the two of them together that neither had specifically sought, to spend time around his daughter. At first, he'd say, she caught his eye, but now she was continually intruding into his thoughts, even when he's busy with other things. He'd look into her father's eye and say that he would like his permission to spend time with her.
After a month or so, the young man makes a quiet visit to the young lady's Dad. No fanfare, no one knows but the two of them. The young man tells him that he has had the opportunity, through circumstances that brought the two of them together that neither had specifically sought, to spend time around his daughter. At first, he'd say, she caught his eye, but now she was continually intruding into his thoughts, even when he's busy with other things. He'd look into her father's eye and say that he would like his permission to spend time with her.
He'd explain that it wasn't dating he was after; he'd tell him that dating usually meant opportunity for temptation, foolish spending, and attempts to create false impressions. Instead, he'd like to spend time at her home, or if they were away, in the presence of mutual friends, and always in public places, and always with a particular time they were to be home, and always no later.
