soul.





CHAPTER X


THE ART OF BEING MARRIED


I


HOUSEHOLD HARMONY


I have the greatest sympathy with married couples who never read any
books or pamphlets containing advice to married people, and are
determined that they never will. Once a man and a woman have left their
respective homes and set up in one of their own their common life is so
entirely their own affair, and they have such a clear right to resent
all intrusions into it, that the policy of rejecting all advice
beforehand has clearly something to be said for it.

And yet, because no one need read this chapter unless he or she likes,
I put it in; and if any wife or husband does read it, I hope that in
that case both husband and wife will do so. I really write it not so
much for those who are already married, as for those still unmarried.