"Why shouldn't I goggle?"
"Why should you?
"Because," said George Finch, looking like a stuffed frog, "I love her."
"Nonsense!"
"It isn't nonsense"
"Have you ever read my booklet on 'The Marriage Sane'?"
"No, I haven't."
"I show there that love is a reasoned emotion that springs from mutual knowledge, increasing over an extended period of time, and a community of tastes. How can you love a girl when you have never spoken to her and don't even know her name?"
"I do know her name."
"How?"
"I looked through the telephone directory till I found out who lived at Number 16 East Seventy-ninth Street. It took me about a week because . . . "
"Sixteen East Seventy-ninth Street? You don't mean that this girl you've been staring at is little Molly Waddington?"
(from The Small Bachelor, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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