Now the trouble in our country is that people marry for love, and when they get through loving they have got to live, and then somebody must pay the bills.

Supposing the son of one rich father marries the daughter of another rich father; by the time they have got rid of the novelty of the thing the bills begin to come in, and they spend the remainder of their amiable lives in trying to shove the expense off on to each other.

With an old-fashioned marriage contract to tie them up, that would not happen, because the wife is bound to provide so many clothes, and the husband has to give her just so much to eat, and there is an end of it.
See ?" "No, I do not see," returned Claudius.

"If they really loved each other--" "Get out!" interrupted Barker, merrily.

"If you mean to take the immutability of the human affections as a basis of argument, I have done." "There your cynicism comes in," said the other, "and denies you the pleasure and profit of contemplating an ideal, and of following it up to its full development." "Is it cynical to see things as they are instead of as they might be in an imaginary world ?" "Provided you really see them as they are--no," said Claudius.