And my Lord Dunoran came in, and was very glad to see him, and very tender and reverent too; and the good doctor, as he could not be at the wedding, wished to say a word 'on the eve of the great change which my dear young friend--little Gertie, we used to call her--is about to make.' And so he talked to them both.

It was an affectionate little homily, and went on something in this sort-- 'But I need not say how honourable an estate it is, only, my lord, you will always remember your wooing is not over with your wedding.

As you did first choose your love, you must hereafter love your choice.

In Solomon's Song, the Redeemer the bridegroom, and the Church His spouse, one calls the other "love," to show that though both did not honour alike, yet both should love alike.
'And always be kind, and the kinder the more her weakness needs it.
Elkanah says to his wife, "Am not I better unto thee than ten sons ?" As though he favoured her more for that which she thought herself despised.
So a good husband will not love his wife less, but comfort her more for her infirmities, as this man did, that she may bear with his infirmities too.

And if she be jealous--ay, they will be jealous--' He spoke in a reverie, with a sad fond look, not a smile, but something like a smile, and a little pensive shake of the head; he was thinking, perhaps, of very old times.