SHE IS NOT FOR YOU Up to this moment the youth had listened to the lecture in silence, but now he arose and said in a calm clear voice: "'Tis all true; it is so!" "I should say it was all very bad, very bad indeed!" said the lawyer vehemently, as if completing a broken sentence.

"What! Children to meditate suicide because things in this world don't go exactly according to their liking! Have you never regarded the affair from its practical side?
Did you imagine that the girl's relations would support you?
And would you yourself endure to be their pensioner, their butt, the scorn of the very domestics, for a poor son-in-law is the standing jest of the very flunkeys--you ought to know that!" Szilard's face burned like fire at these words, but the old man hastened to soothe him.
"No, you could never reconcile yourself to that, I am sure.

But you thought, perhaps, that the girl might descend to your level and share your poverty.

There are in the world many a poor lad and lass who endow one another with nothing but their ardent love and yet make happy couples enough.

So, no doubt, you argued, and herein lies the fallacy that has deceived you.