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Conger Reynolds correspondence, May 1918
1918-05-27 Conger Reynolds to Daphe Reynolds Page 9
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good sort she isn't very deserving of him. She might at least be honest with him, not pretending she loves him enough to marry him if her love is so frail that it permits her to want to flirt with a dog like H--. Will you tell me why a girl will deliberately play with fire, risking everything that is honorable and clean and beautiful for the sake of satisfying foolish vanity? Usually I think it is because she doesn't know as much as she ought to. If girls could know what happens to them in the eyes of decent men when they toy with the dangerous sort I think they would see less attraction in the sport. Men know men, and they judge girls
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good sort she isn't very deserving of him. She might at least be honest with him, not pretending she loves him enough to marry him if her love is so frail that it permits her to want to flirt with a dog like H--. Will you tell me why a girl will deliberately play with fire, risking everything that is honorable and clean and beautiful for the sake of satisfying foolish vanity? Usually I think it is because she doesn't know as much as she ought to. If girls could know what happens to them in the eyes of decent men when they toy with the dangerous sort I think they would see less attraction in the sport. Men know men, and they judge girls
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