*Never four—that’s for schoolchildren or plebeians. The delivery of four cheek kisses is a sure sign of working-class culture. In a similar vein, the swells who still practice the baise-main (kissing ladies’ hands) would never dream of actually making lip contact with the proferred extremity—how vulgar. One bows slightly (optionally clicking one’s heels) and makes the motions of kissing the hand, as in a charade.