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`` Aren't you sure ''??

I asked, looking at her searchingly.

I wanted to grab her by the arm and beg her to wait, to consider, to know for certain because life is so long and marriage is so important.

But if she were just having a normal case of pre-nuptial jitters such a question might frighten her out of a really good marriage.

Besides, in all honesty, I don't know how you can be sure.

I don't know any secret recipe for certainty.

In the fevered, intoxicating, breathless state of being in love the usual signposts that guide you to lasting and satisfying relationships are sometimes obscured.

I knew of but one test and I threw it out to her for what it was worth.