Ah, Sir, if that refusal made you smart,
It’s little that you know of woman’s heart,
Or what that heart is trying to convey
When it resists in such a feeble way!
Always, at first, our modesty prevents
The frank avowal of tender sentiments;
However high the passion which inflames us,
Still, to confess its power somehow shames us.
Thus we reluct, at first, yet in a tone
Which tells you that our heart is overthrown.
That what our lips deny, our pulse confesses.
And that, in time, all noes will turn to yeses.
"Tartuffe (Molière)