But these phases are
only a part of the tie which must bind husband and wife to make love
enduring through all of life's vicissitudes.
There must be mental companionship, and to be a complete union there
must be sympathy in spiritual ideas.
The very young do not realize this fact, but it is forced upon the
mature.
Marital love is like a tree. It first roots in the soil of earth, and
then lifts its branches to the heavens. Unless it does so lift its
branches it is stunted and deformed, and is not a tree. Unless it roots
in earth it is not a tree, but an air-plant or a cobweb.
You want to be sure the tree you are thinking to make a shelter for your
whole life, will have far-reaching and uplifting branches, and will not
be merely an earth-bound twig.
Since your church permits no second marriage save by the door of death,
do not make a mistake in your first.
Take a year, at least, of absence and separation, and think the matter
over.
To Sybyl Marchmont
_Concerning Her Determination to Remain Single_
It is with genuine regret that I learn of your determination to send my
nephew out of your life.
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