Once more, in talking about these things, what matters isn't that we never cause an upset but that we should hear a lover out politely when they tell us sweetly and politely we have done so.
First he nodded politely, and then his face broke into that radiant and understanding smile, as if we'd been in ecstatic cahoots on that fact all the time.
When the Mormon had recovered his breath, Passepartout ventured to ask him politely how many wives he had;for, from the manner in which he had decamped, it might be thought that he had twenty at least.
Though a very social man, I think Mr. Bhaer would have gone decorously away, and come again another day, but how could he, when Jo shut the door behind him, and bereft him of his hat?
He knocked politely, and now the wood was as still as the children, not a sound to be heard except from Tinker Bell, who was watching from a branch and openly sneering.