nfidant. His marriage several
years after hurt me. I think he never suspected my feelings. When
about thirteen a boy a little older than I moved into our town
from the East, and we proceeded to fall in love with each other
at once. We wrote long letters to each other daily,--although we
sat across the aisle from each other--and handed them to each
other slyly when we thought no one was looking. When I was
obliged to remain at home one week he brought me a long letter
each evening after school. These letters were full of love and
jealousy, and were read over and over, and were often carried
next the heart. We took long walks and rides together, but I
cannot recall a single caress given or received during the two
years we were acknowledged lovers. I had received very strict
teaching in regard to such things. Both of us were easily teased
and very bashful when observed by others. When he was sent to a
town fifteen miles away he felt sure I would forget him and that
this meant the end of our beautiful love. I grieved over his
leaving and because we were not allowed to correspond, but was
really beginning to love a young man somewhat older so much that
I was not inconsolable. We were very jealous of each other; and
the news which came to each did not contribute to our peace of
mind until we gradually grew apart. This affair was renewed
later, and was of quite a different character.

NOTES

1: It should be borne in mind by the reader that this
article is a preliminary study. It forms a part of one chapter of a
relatively comprehensive study of some of the aspects of the
Psychology of Sex. The writer appreciates the fact that there may be
a number of questions suggested to the reader, the satisfactory
answer to which cannot be found in the data submitted here. It may
also seem that too much is made of some of the facts and that certain
interpretations are unwarranted. This effect is almost always
inevitably the result of isolating any phase of a subject from its
settings in the whole to which it belongs. Several points merely
touched upon in this article are to be exhaustively treated in other
sections of the same study.

2: Ribot: The Psychology of the Emotions, p. 248.

3: Psychology of Sex, Vol. III; Alienist and Neurologist,
July, 1901, p. 500; American Journal of Dermatology, Sept., 1901.

4: Principles of Psychology, Vo