'"It's all right about the proposal," she announced; "he came out with it at the sixth hole. I said I must have time to think it over. I accepted him at the seventh."
"My dear," said her mother, "I think a little more maidenly reserve and hesitation would have been advisable, as you've known him so short a time. You might have waited till the ninth hole."
"The seventh is a very long hole," said Jessie; "besides, the tension was putting us both off our game..."
from The Brogue, a piece in Beasts and Super-Beasts by Saki
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