But for real true love – love at first sight, love to devotion, love that robs a man of his sleep, love that ‘will gaze an eagle blind’, love that ‘will hear the lowest sound when the suspicious tread of theft is stopped’, love that is ‘like a Hercules, still climbing trees in the Hesperides’ – we believe the best age is from forty-five to seventy; up to that men are generally given to mere flirting.
