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Give him the date for when Mary’s out of mourning. No one wants to kiss a girl in black.
— Downton Abbey · 2010
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker asks for the date on which Mary will be out of mourning to be passed along to him. The reasoning is brisk and unsentimental: a girl still dressed in black holds no romantic appeal, so the period of grief is treated as an obstacle to courtship.
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