I cannot blame them if they do." "Perhaps the love differs more in kind than degree," Violet said presently.
"Yes; there is something in that," he returned; "yet it is not altogether that which satisfies me.

We are all bidden to love one another.

'Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the Church, and gave himself for it....

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies.

He that loveth his wife loveth himself....