Precisely because we have to be so wide awake to protect ourselves.

We instinctively know the difference between the ring of false and true, and as we hear the false so much the oftener Your charge against us of want of real feeling is the result of your ignorance of women; you don't see below the surface.' 'Well now, apply all this to the present instance.

What has your insight discerned in my proposed marriage to cause you to regard it as a piece of folly ?' 'Simply this.

You ally yourself with some one from a class beneath your own.

Such marriages very, very seldom prove anything but miserable, and _always_ bring a great many troubles.