Some of the stories might be based on reality, the rest are very likely to be mere figments of the writer's over-active imagination. From the 19th century farm woman saving the life of a peddler, a dear little six year old befriending an older woman, to a bright young woman e-mailing her mom about her developing torrid romance in an ancient Italian city, all of these women are well behaved and certainly proper ladies. You would think. And mostly,...