Love's Dialectic, 1

The Winslow Boy, a movie, closing scene:

[Young man and young lady, apparently quite “taken” with each other.]

“You continue with your suffragette work, Miss Winslow. Don’t you know it is a lost cause?”

“So little do you know about women, Sir Robert.”
(then)
“I don’t expect I shall ever see you again.”

Robert, with a knowing smile, responds:

“So little, you know, Miss Winslow, about men.”

And the sunshine of a slight smile slowly lights her face.
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It isn’t over until it’s over--and it is not over yet.

When love is afield, the dialectic stays active. If love is to continue, a necessary condition is to consider, always, the other.

Actually, the same is true in any kind of continuing relationship, from international diplomacy to the business place to the classroom to a hospital stay. It is necessary, perhaps even sufficient, that we consider the other.