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Touch and sociability [ Communication ] … be permissible to accept the pressure of a hand, but passively: Charlotte’s response could raise a question as to her pleasure, but insufficiently for certainty, since that would betray her modesty, at least on an early encounter. And … Conduct | Conventions | Dance | Gender | Kissing | Propriety | Touch Encyclopedia