This courtship has been going on too long and you're getting bored.
There was nothing in Pierre's soul now at all like what had troubled it during his courtship of Helene.
Sir Francis Walsingham was born at Chislehurst, where his family had long flourished; Hever Castle was the seat of the Boleyns and the scene of the courtship of Anne Boleyn by Henry VIII.
Wasn't there supposed to be something between "nice to meet you" and "I love you" - like six months of courtship?
Einhard married Emma, or Imma, a sister of Bernharius, bishop of Worms, and a tradition of the 12th century represented this lady as a daughter of Charlemagne, and invented a romantic story with regard to the courtship which deserves to be noticed as it frequently appears in literature.