Woman is their shepherdess of sheep.

He loved freedom, loathed the subjection of a partnership; could undergo it only in adoration of an ineffable splendour.

He had stepped to the altar fancying she might keep to her part of the contract by appearing the miracle that subdued him.

Seen by light of day, this bitter object beside him was a witch without her spells; that is, the skeleton of the seductive, ghastliest among horrors and ironies.

Let her have the credit of doing her work thoroughly before the exposure.