As we passed the market in which she worked, he got out before her, holding her parcel with one hand and giving her the other to assist her to alight; and then, taking off his hat, he kissed her hand to the no small astonishment of more than one of the passengers.
Transfer this example to 2026, the older woman getting on a crowded Manhattan bus. The gallant young man will no longer own a hat, be taken to a hospital for treatment of contusions about the face, and spend the next three nights locked up on Riker’s Island.