Suitable for Marian? (The Librarian)

In "The Music Man", Marian Peroo -- a librarian -- sings "Being in Love" to explain to her mother that, while she loves the idea of being in love, she is still single because she hasn't found the right man.  When describing what she's looking for, she lists a few necessary conditions:

All I want is a plain man.
All I want is a modest man.
A quiet man, a gentle man
A straightforward and honest man
To sit with me in a cottage somewhere in the state of Iowa...
And I would like him to be more interested in me
Than he's in himself and more interested in us than in me...


Then after those, she lists one more thing on her wish list:


And if occasionally he'd ponder
What makes Shakespeare and Beethoven great.
Him I could love 'til I die.


Well, gee Marian.  A couple of months ago, I talked about Shakespeare. Yesterday, it was Beethoven.

But I'm afraid I'm already spoken for.



You'll have to settle for Harold.

To give her proper credit though, this line

And I would like him to be more interested in me
Than he's in himself and more interested in us than in me...

should be rule number 1 when looking for a marriage partner (insert  "her" and "she" if appropriate).

So Marian got that right.