To close this chapter with a sweet, soothing concord—major triad, horns and ’cellos, _smorzando_—it must be admitted that the Germans have one ingredient of Romantic Love which all other nations must envy them. They have one more thrill in the drama of Love, in the ascending scale of familiarities, than we have, namely, the word _Du_, which is something very different from the stilted _Thou_, because still a part of everyday language. The second person singular is used in Germany towards pet animals and children, between students, intimate friends, relatives, and lovers. French “lovers” do not say _tu_ to each other till after marriage, and even then they do not use it in public. But the German lover has the privilege, as soon as he is engaged, of exchanging the formal _Sie_ for the affectionate _Du_; and the first _Du_ that comes from her lips can hardly be less sweet than the first kiss. There is a game of cards, popular among young folks in Germany, during which you have to address every one with _Du_ whom you otherwise would have to call _Sie_, and _vice versâ_; cards have to be called spoons, white black, etc. If there is a young man in the company secretly in love with a young lady, you can always “spot” him by the eagerness he shows to speak to her, and the fact that he always gets the _Du_ right and everything else wrong; while she, strange to say, appears to have never heard of such a thing at all as a personal pronoun. ENGLISH LOVE Concerning Romantic Love in England and America, there is less to be said under the head of National Peculiarities than in case of the continental nations of Europe, for the simple reason that almost everything said in the pages on Modern Love refers especially to these two countries. Anglo-American Love is Romantic Love, pure and simple, as first depicted by Shakspere, and after him, with more or less accuracy, by a hundred other poets and novelists. There is no lack of colour in this Love—colour warm and glowing—but it is no longer a mere local colour, a national or provincial peculiarity, but Love in its essence, its cosmopolitan aspect; Love such as will in course of time prevail throughout the world, when the Anglisation of this planet—which is only a question of time—shall have been completed.