But her meaning was obvious." "What, then, did she mean ?" A little while Mrs.Dexter thought, and then answered-- "She thinks that men and women are born partners, and that only they who are fortunate enough to meet are ever happy in marriage--are, in fact, really married." "How is a woman to know that she is rightly mated ?" asked Mrs.De Lisle.
"By the law of affinities.

The instincts of our nature are never at fault." "So the thief who steals your watch will say the instincts of his nature all prompted to the act.

If our lives were orderly as in the beginning, Mrs.Dexter, we might safely follow the soul's unerring instincts.

But, unfortunately, this is not the case; and instinct needs the law of revelation and the law of reason for its guide." "You believe in true, interior marriages ?" said Mrs.Dexter.
"Yes, marriages for eternity." "And that they are made here ?" Mrs.De Lisle did not answer immediately.
"The preparation for eternal marriage is here," she said, speaking thoughtfully.
Mrs.Dexter looked at her like one in doubt as to the meaning of what she heard.

She then said: "In a true marriage, souls must conjoin by virtue of an original affinity.