2800. How tediously the hours rolled away prior to the appointed time of meeting; how swift they seemed to fly, when met; how fond was the first greeting; how tender the last embrace; how fervent were your vows; how vivid your dreams of future happiness, when, returning to your home, you felt yourself secure in the confessed love of the object of your warm affections.
2801. Is your dream realized?—are you as happy as you expected?
2802. Why not? Consider whether as a husband you are as fervent and constant as you were when a lover.
2803. Remember that the wife's claims to your unremitting regard—great before marriage, are now exalted to a much higher degree.
2804. She has left the world for you—the home of her childhood, the fireside of her parents, their watchful care and sweet intercourse have all been yielded up for you.