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after a very indirect introduction, a woman may say to another whose conversation or companionship has atracted her, It would give me great pleasure, Miss (or Mrs.) Blank, to see you on my day at home; or, I hope you will let me send you my cards; I am at home on Fridays; or, May I not ask for your card and send you mine, Miss Brown? It will be such a pleasure to meet you again.
Instinctively a young or single woman awaits this advance from a senior or matron. Where there is no distinction to be made on the score of years, etc., a mutual liking prompts the advance without careful
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consideration on either side. The person invited to call responds cordially and tends her card immediately or promises to call and posts or leaves later her own card.
Although so little ceremony exists between women in making up their calling lists, between men and women more elaborate formalities are observed. Since there is a rule for nearly every ceremony in polite society-a rule with exceptions, of course-it is as well first to give the regulations
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