CHAPTER XV
MARRYING WITHOUT LOVE
Another question that came to me is very much like the preceding one. It reads: "Is it worth while to marry a good kind person without being in love?"
I think I have practically answered that question already. It would not satisfy me to marry anyone but my ideal. It would drive me distracted to be married to anyone but a perfectly congenial person; but then perhaps I am finicky in the matter. I think I would be apt to spend most of my time away from home in such a case, and play the hypocrite when at home.
However, I know what marriage is, and many people do not. A street organ satisfies some people's taste for music. To others jazz is heavenly. But for one who has a cultivated taste for music, or for marriage, real music, or real marriage, is indispensable to genuine happiness.
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