Young girls should bear in mind that husbands are not creatures who are always making love, any more than soldiers are men who are always fighting.
A love affair will interest even a very old woman, just as the account of a race will always interest an old jockey. Habit, you see!
The friendship of women for women is very often less based on love, or even sympathy, than on little indiscreet confidences which they may have made to one another.
In order that love may be lasting, it must be closely allied with tried friendship. One cannot replace the other, but so long as both march abreast, living together, a man and a woman can find life delicious.
It is not matrimony that kills love, but the way in which many people live in the state of matrimony. It may be affirmed, however, that only intelligent diplomatists (alas! the select few!) can make love last long in matrimonial life.