forward to the time when I should
make her my wife. It was in secret, however, and I was always
fearful lest some one should find it out. The girl probably never
bestowed a thought upon me. I was very shy in her presence, and
if she spoke to me or addressed me in any manner my tongue clove
to the roof of my mouth, making it almost impossible for me to
answer. I dreamed about her night after night, and upon hearing
her name mentioned I would become confused and nervous." This
continued from nine to fifteen, and developed into a genuine case
of adolescent love.

Case 4. B. 11, g. 9. Boy would come to take the girl to their
little parties--but would never walk on the same side of the
street with her. The girl writes: "We were very much afraid of
each other, and yet we weren't. When we were together we never
would speak to each other if we could help it, but when we were
apart we wrote notes constantly."

Case 5. "I was very much in love with a boy when I was between
seven and nine years of age. I always felt hurt if he chose any
one else in the games. I was very much embarrassed if this boy's
name was mentioned in the presence of my mother or brothers. I
didn't mind their teasing me about any other boy. I felt none of
this embarrassment in the presence of my sympathetic playmates."

Case 6. An eight-year-old boy contemplated suicide because his
sweetheart moved into another neighborhood. He would not tell her
that he loved her. Wanted to give her a present, but feared she
would divine the truth.

Case 7. From a woman's confessions, referring to her love at nine
years of age: We never used the word _love_, it was always
_like_. I think we felt afraid of _love_. I think we had no
definite idea of marriage, we lived completely in the present.
However, I felt in a dim way that we were always to be together.

Case 8. From a man's confessions: "I never told any one that I
loved the girl, and did not even want the girl to know it. I was
satisfied to be in sight of the girl. I was nine and she was
ten."

Case 9. B. 9, g. 8. A blue-eyed girl and a handsome dark-eyed
boy. One day he told Bessie he had something to tell her, but
that she must tell no one. He said that he had wanted to tell her
before but could not; now he would tell her if he choked to death
in the effort.