Cirrus@Austlit

A youth endeavouring to recover from his infatuation with a pretty girl is passed by her travelling at top speed along a country lane in the latest women's knickerbockers. He has his revenge when he comes upon her sitting helplessly near her bicycle with a punctured tyre. He denounces her clothes and says he will help but is waiting to be asked. She cowers in her bike costume, finally admits her ignorance, asks his help, he fixes the tyre and flushed with superiority he kisses her. Interesting for the by-play between kind, honest, snubbed young man and the advanced woman who finds herself humbled and in need of assistance. Sexual dominance asserted though some of her clothing is very successful - and once she has made submission he approves it, no longer calling her a "saucy, impudent boy." (PB)