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Here is a question which is a very pertinent one: "How can you know when you are in love enough to get married?"

The young woman who asked the question evidently recognized the fact that people often think they are in love when it is only a counterfeit of the real thing.

Someone piques our interest. We like them. We have nothing especially against them, but we are not sure that we want to live with them forever and ever, or even at all in marriage. And yet, since many people marry in such a case and seem to get on well, may it not be that love will increase until it is sufficient for all practical purposes?

The fact is that the argument often used with young girls who are persuaded by their parents to marry a man of the parent's choice, and not particularly of the girl's choice, is just this one that if you