ARRANGED MARRIAGE (2)

Denmark's televised experiment with arranged marriage has come to an end. At the end of the four-week trial period, my wife's initial predictions of one yes, one no, and one "we'll give it a go" came true.

The only question was what would happen next. Cut to four months later. The one yes are now serious boy and girlfriend, but the "we'll give it a go" couple had split. Apparently the pressures of daily life were too much for her.

As the experts said, each of the three couples had been through more in the space of a month than most go through in their first ten years together. Against that background, a success ratio of one out of three is pretty good. Certainly the yes couple looked pretty happy.

Walter Blotscher