The average girl, especially if living in the country, has not usually a
very large circle of acquaintances from which to choose her friends (and
notwithstanding what is said about the sufficiency of family affections,
I do think a "particular friend" is almost a necessity to girl nature,
and need not and ought not to interfere with home ties and interests).
Even if her mother's visiting list is long, each household will not
include a girl of her own age with whom she could be intimate, and many
will live at a distance to make frequent intercourse out of the
question.
Yes, your circle will narrow to some five or six, perhaps even three or
four, girls, and you will naturally see most of the one living nearest
to you.
You meet in your strolls, if you live in the country, you continually
"drop in" to tea and tennis at each other's houses. If you live in a
town, you drop in just before or just after your round of more formal
visits, and you get to know each others' daily lives, daily interests,
pleasures, and difficulties very thoroughly, and this interweaving of
the day-to-day existence forms many a friendship.
You get accustomed to each other; the trivial incidents of the hour,
perhaps its gossip, which have a transient interest for the one,
interests the other no less.
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