"Young ladies - I do believe you have been reading my books! Now understand: I admire your initiative and your sensible good taste. But, I'd be a poor role model indeed if I didn't at least point out, with some consternation, that you've been studying when instead you were being paid to work! Well, well, enough said about that. And, between you and me, my hearty congratulations to you. Now, carry on please - there are a thousand fine young men, who perhaps one day some of you will be fortunate enough to meet, and marry, who are eagerly awaiting the same pleasure and privilege of reading my latest tome -- a mere trifle, modesty would say -- that you young ladies seem to take for granted."