CHAPTER XXXI
HOW MUCH CAN WE TRUST OUR MATE
Here is a question for married people. It may have an academic interest for the unmarried. It reads: "How much should you trust your husband or wife?"
Scarcely anything is more pitiable than a marriage where the man or the wife is unable for good reason to trust the other.
I heard of a case the other day of a young woman who took advantage of her opportunity to go out in the evening alone in search of diversion. She met in a public dance hall a young man who pleased her fancy, and to whom she was merely a foolish girl.
She said that she was married and showed her marriage ring, and to let him know how little she prized it she gave it to him to wear. You may be sure, however indifferent to honor the young man was, he did not value her evidence of interest. Men are like that.
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