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Rh Perhaps you have known your sweetheart for years, perhaps you have only known him for a few months, but, nevertheless, he has discovered that you are the one woman for him, and the one whom he wishes to have walk beside him all his life, sharing his sorrows and his joys. And you? You are only too glad to be his companion. And thus being of one mind, it becomes necessary that you shall think out what are your duties toward each other, for life is not all love, though, as far as you two are concerned, you may make it so.

First of all it is necessary that your sweetheart should be your companion and your affectionate friend, as well as your lover. Indeed, unless you combine these two—the friend and the lover—the love will wear away, and the lover will grow weary. So, it seems good and right that you should think of the things which interest him, and also think out things which ought to interest him, and by pleasant talk make him aware of them. What I mean, my dear girl, is that while the expression of love is right and proper, and that it is quite right that the man who is to be your husband should greet you with a loving kiss and words that tell of his affection for you, still your hold on him will be greater if you make him interested in the books you have