Had I been suffering from coldness and indifference at home, how
acceptable your boyish devotion might have proved to me.
And how easily I would have been persuaded by your blind reasoning that
we were intended by an all-wise Providence for life companions.
There is no sin a woman so readily forgives as a man's unruly love for
her, and hundreds of noble-hearted women have been led to regard a
lawless infatuation as a divine emotion, because they were lonely, and
neglected, and hungry for affection.
See to it, my dear friend, as the years go by, that your wife needs no
romance from the outside world to embellish her life with sentiment.
Do not drop into the humdrum ways of many contented husbands, and forget
to pay the compliment, and cease to act the lover.
Notice the gowns and hats your wife wears, and share her pleasures and
interests when it is possible.
Not that you should always be together, for separate enjoyments and
occupations sometimes lend an added zest to life for husband and wife,
but do not drift apart in all your ideas and interests, as have so many
married people.
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