25/31 It makes him look wise. If I am not good he will beat me. So I must obey him."' "She wouldn't run off with a good-for-nothing scamp of two-and-twenty ?" "Oh, no-o," said Carlotta. "She would not be so wicked." "I am glad," said I, "that you think a sense of conjugal duty is an ineradicable element of female nature. |