rabid1st

I was intrigued that there seemed to be a lot of kissing, even from the character I infer is the "good Catholic girl". That seems out of period: I've read my grandmother's diary (she married in the mid-nineteen twenties) and she confessed that she and my grandfather had kissed *before they were engaged*, and hoped that wouldn't shock the intended reader (my mother, not yet born at the time the diary was written.) I would assume that doing so would have been even more taboo forty years earlier.