"Timid devotion gets a lover nowhere. I was chatting with Miss Bean this morning, and she was telling me that she had a good deal of trouble at one time with Constable Potter, owing to his devotion being so timid. She says that in the early days of his courtship he used to walk her out and chew his mustache and talk about the situation in China, but no real action. So one evening she said, 'Come on, my lad, get on with it,' and he got on with it. And after that everything went like clockwork."
(from Uncle Dynamite, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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