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The comedy stars Julie Harris as a half-smitten, half-reluctant lady, ardently wooed by Marco St. John, a lad almost half her age.

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Central theme is the couple's slow, half-reluctant maturing through marriage and child-begetting.

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The comedy stars Julie Harris as a half-smitten, half-reluctant lady ardently wooed by Marco St. John, a handsome lad almost half her age.

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Touching are Joan Fontaine's half-apologetic, half-reluctant reminiscences about her artist father.

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"Are you going?" she asked him at length, a half-reluctant appeal in her voice.

From Vagabondia 1884 by Burnett, Frances Hodgson