4/27 Her plump brown arms were set off by the green and crimson of the flowers that decked her. He always liked Ula; she pleased him the best of all his women. And she knew his ways, too: she never contradicted him. The wife who knows when to give way with hypocritical obedience, and when to coax or wheedle her yielding lord, runs the best chance in the end for her life. Her model is not the oak, but the willow. |