Why can’t they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?
– Bram Stoker
Dracula, Chapter 5. Lucy tells her friend Mina in a letter about three suitors who have proposed marriage to her, and comes up with this solution to avoiding disappointing two of them. While Lucy is a chase and respectable women, her suggestion shows a strong sexualty and borders on the promiscuous by the stands of Victorian England.