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92 very long; if, on the contrary, I do so with judgment and out of a conscious conviction that the man is destined for me, then I shall be faithful to my husband all my life."

"And which of these alternatives do you prefer?"

"The second," I reply; and add truthfully, "for there are certain classes of feeling in which I object to changes."

"Really? But you would have the same result, even if you married for love."

"I am afraid I cannot bring myself to believe in the eternal duration of mere feeling. Love in marriage, as a rule, becomes in time a sort of mutuality of habit, a sense of solidarity, as it were, and now and then even a brotherhood of minds. It is just in such cases that divorce would be advisable."

"And when it is a marriage of reason?"

"Why, then the question is correctly stated from the first; at the outset, suitability of characters and of individualities are taken into consideration, so as to prevent any possibility of future disagreement."

"And yet it is possible to obtain the continuance of love by incessantly watching over it, by not unf requently putting on a mask, and