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I mean liking the same things having the same
answered Mrs M
ideas & ideals of life. And you think that necessary
said May
to a happy marriage I am sure it is replied Mrs M,
May I think I know what you mean. I think you needed
me to know. You have to decide something & you don't
know what to do. I love you so much that I must warn
you not to make a mistake May be very su think what it is
May to have to live one's life in the closest companionship
with a person ^to whom you can never talk about the subjects
that are most important to you & whose plans & ambitions
seem to you useless or even wholly wrong. Think of it dear & be very
careful for if you make a mistake now it is a mistake for your
whole life. But Mrs Merriam if it weren't for yourself that you
were thinking if you were willing to be a little less happy that
asked May
someone else might be more so what would you do. I should
think I was in danger of following an old & false saying
that the end justifies the means. Remember May that if
you marry a man with whom you are not in sympathy no
matter whether you like him or not you are wronging him as
well as yourself for it will be just as hard for him as it is for you.
May had gone to Mrs Merriam's hoping to get encouragement to [do?]
what would require [some?] self-sacrifice but instead but she certainly had not
found it, & [moreover?] she asked herself what Mrs Merriam would
have said if she had known that there was another objection to that
course in May's interest in Harry Phillips. It was not an easy thing