Most women are much more influenced by strength in a man than by

anything which can reasonably be called beauty. Actually and

metaphorically every woman would rather be roughly carried off her feet

by something she cannot resist than be abjectly worshipped and

flattered; yet worship and flattery, though second-best, are much

better than the terribly superior and instructive affection which the

born prig bestows upon his idol with the air of granting a favour on

moral grounds.

Men, on the other hand, detest being carried away, almost as much as

being led. The woman who lets a man guess that she is trying to

influence him is lost, and generally forfeits for ever any real

influence she may have had. The only sort of cleverness which is

distinctly womanly is that which leads a man to do with energy,

enthusiasm and devotion the very thing which he has always assured

everybody that he will not think of doing. The old-fashioned way of

making a pig go to market is to pull his tail steadily in the opposite

direction. If you do that, nothing can save him from his fate; for he

will drag you off your feet in his effort to do what he does not want

to do at all; and there is more 'psychology' in that plain fact than in

volumes of subtle analysis.




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