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Victorian etiquete
Jun. 16th, 2013 10:36 amI was recently reading a book about etiquete from the Gutenberg project web site that was published in the late Victorian times.
One passage caught my attention:
"No gentleman be expected to escort a lady home on foot beyond a distance of 3 miles, unless the gentleman be positive and lady agreeable."
Did I understand it correctly, that a gentleman can just invite a lady for a date to some bad neighbourhood that is 3.1 miles away from her home, and then just say: "I can only escort you home safely if you are "agreeable""?
Or I am just spoiled and the passage only means that if a gentleman had invited a lady for a date to a place that is further than 3 miles away from her home, he should pay her a cab, unless she is OK to have a long walk with him?
One passage caught my attention:
"No gentleman be expected to escort a lady home on foot beyond a distance of 3 miles, unless the gentleman be positive and lady agreeable."
Did I understand it correctly, that a gentleman can just invite a lady for a date to some bad neighbourhood that is 3.1 miles away from her home, and then just say: "I can only escort you home safely if you are "agreeable""?
Or I am just spoiled and the passage only means that if a gentleman had invited a lady for a date to a place that is further than 3 miles away from her home, he should pay her a cab, unless she is OK to have a long walk with him?
