I’m interested in Nathalie’s question about Phillips and innocence. I was struck by Traub’s note about changing ideals of heterosexual coupling as it relates to friendship: “Once friendship becomes a goal of marriage for men and women, female friendship begins to look a lot like companionate marriage. At the same time, when female-female love becomes, as I’ve argued, increasingly available as an imaginative social reality, the burden of women to choose to bond with men increases” (261). How do innocence and friendship interact, and what do chaste female friendships look like? Can there be chaste male-female friendships?