Of course the interested parties are not asked their opinion, as it might be prejudiced.

The result of the conference must be highly gratifying.

To have one's wife chosen for one by vote of one's relatives cannot but be satisfactory--to the electors.

The outcome of this ballot, like that of universal suffrage elsewhere, is at the best unobjectionable mediocrity.

Somehow such a result does not seem quite to fulfil one's ideal of a wife.