I asked how he'd feel if she became romantically involved with someone else.
The pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, had a vexed relationship with the surnames of the men with whom she was romantically involved.
At night, Capri twinkles romantically in the distance.
These four one- and two-bedroom cottages have great sea views from their wooden verandas; interiors have unfussy antiques, nautical prints and romantically mosquito-netted beds.
(And, less romantically, recurrent bleeps, coughs, rustles, rips and clicks of ourselves and our possessions. Why can't we shut up?) The sound of the seal proves a powerful lure, and as we retrace our steps to the boats it looks like, despite the crew's appeal to leave well alone, some passengers have split off to photograph a beached male.
Though there were rumours at the time that Rhodes and Schreiner were romantically involved, the most intense relationships in Rhodes's life appear to have been those with young men – notably his secretary, Neville Pickering.
And although half of unmarried mothers are still living with the father when the baby is born (and another third are romantically involved with him but living apart), only a third of these couples are still intact by the time the child turns five.
He would talk to the moon with him and get wildly, romantically drunk.
Dandyish young Mr Thorpe, his political allegiance as defiantly and romantically outmoded as the waistcoats and watch-chain he always wore, decided therefore to be a Liberal, despite his Tory parents.
As one Eminem fan at a recent music festival in Atlanta romantically put it "I'm just trying to sort things one at a time.
Women, romantically primed or not, weren't.Heroism, of course, is a pretty high-risk strategy.
