He might talk about a cheese or a wine or some such trifle, but how small a portion of living are cheese and wine! The first year of wedded life is experimental, though it be with the pair best mated since the world began.

There is an unconscious dropping of all surface traits and all disguises, and a showing of heart and brain to the one other.

Never lived the woman so self-contained and tactful that, at the end of a year, her husband, if he were a man of ordinary intelligence, did not know her for what she was worth; never the man so thoughtful and discreet that he was not estimated at his value by the one so near him.

This I have been told by men and women who should know.

I lack the trial which should give wisdom to myself, but I am inclined to accept the dictum of these others.