48/72 But we didn't either of us know what the other would say to a dinnerless home with the cook gone. We were leaving a good deal to be learned later on; but we didn't think of that. Love that is to last must be built upon the realization that troubles and trials and sorrows are sure to come, and that they must be borne together--if one back is not to break under the load. We were entering into a contract, not for a week, but, presumedly, for a lifetime--and a good deal may come to one in a lifetime--not all of it pleasant. We had been brought up in two distinctly different social environments, but we didn't stop to think of that. |