It seemed to me that, were I a gentleman like him, I would take to my bosom only such a wife as I could love; but the very obviousness of the advantages to the husband's own happiness offered by this plan convinced me that there must be arguments against its general adoption of which I was quite ignorant: otherwise I felt sure all the world would act as I wished to act.
«Mais les avantages d'une telle union, pensais-je, sont si évidents que tout le monde les verrait comme moi, s'il n'y avait pas quelque autre raison que je ne puis pas bien comprendre.»