Women Dropping Polite Hints In Western Art History

baby i love you but reading is not a group activity

OH, GOOD

ANOTHER DIRGE

wonderful news, Tess

this gentleman is here to describe our own globe to us

hi thank you so much for the help

and the arm that’s touching me right now

but I was actually reading okay by myself before you got here

i just

christ

i need a minute to look at something that isn’t your mustache

just a single minute

he’s behind me right now

isn’t he

he’s going to start reading to me again

i can feel it

no, darling, it’s wonderful

just wonderful

i was just wondering if you could back up another four and a half paces before you begin the next scroll

I’m smiling, so we can’t be fighting

I shall faint, I shall faint, I cannot bear it

you shall bear it

I have listened to his poetry since I was a girl

you have a strength within you that you do not even know yet

oh I do love this game

where I keep pushing you away

but you keep touching me

I love it so much that I think we should let Eliza have a turn

of where she’s pushing you away but for jokes

mm yes

I quite garden

I mean I quite agree

better the drop than this talk

hahahahahaha, oh James

dear heart, your elbow is actually pressing a bit hard into my chest

is it?

how awful

elbows are like that sometimes

perhaps if you stepped further away from touching me

it wouldn’t hurt quite so badly

eye contact, darling

eye contact, and smile, and back away so slowly he doesn’t realize we’re moving

darling Isabelle

don’t make any sudden moves

but I believe if I lean back a bit I can reach his lute

and club him with it before he reads us another sonnet