She had become his wife, and so far all things had gone well with her; but if misery and despair had been the necessary consequences of her union with him, she must have married him all the same, so dominant was the influence by which he ruled her.

Of course Georgy was not herself aware of her own dependence.

She accepted all things as they were presented to her by a stronger mind than her own.

She wore her handsome silk dresses, and was especially particular as to the adjustment of her bonnet-strings, knowing that the smallest impropriety of attire was obnoxious to the well-ordered mind of her second husband.

She obeyed him very much as a child obeys a strict but not unkind schoolmaster.