:22:04
They're on display.
:22:06
They have to call the guys up
and invite them as escorts.
:22:10
And preppy girls mature socially
much later than others do.
:22:13
For many of them, this is the first
serious social life they've had...
:22:16
and if you just disappear now,
they're gonna take that as personal rejection.
:22:20
- Give me a break.
- I'm not entirely joking.
:22:23
You should go.
:22:25
IfThorstein Veblen were here,
he'd tell you the same thing.
:22:32
I'll meet you at 4:30 at Brooks,
main floor, southwest corner...
:22:35
where the pajamas intersect
with the expensive shirts...
:22:37
right across from
the undershorts counter.
:22:42
As a romance,
it never really existed.
:22:44
- Really?
- I made a classic mistake.
:22:47
I fell in love with Serena
long before I met her.
:22:49
I'd seen her at a Chapin dance,
but I didn't really meet her until a year later.
:22:53
Even before we started going out,
I'd built up this huge romantic vision about her.
:22:58
It should be just the reverse.
:23:00
You should get to know someone
gradually, over time...
:23:02
before the possibility of falling in love
even occurs to you.
:23:05
Possibly not even then.
:23:07
So the experience
has somewhat hardened you?
:23:09
Yes. At least, it's a very bad idea to fall
for someone who doesn't for you.
:23:15
Yes, but you can't know that you'll feel
exactly the same way all the time.
:23:19
I mean, I suppose
there will be risk in any romance.
:23:22
I suppose so.
:23:24
Well, this is my building.
:23:28
- Thanks very much for coming.
- Thank you.
:23:32
You'll come again tomorrow?
It'll be as a group.
:23:35
Yes.