You pleased them you knew not how, and just as little did you know how you displeased them.

And you were long hence to be taught that in a certain past year, and a certain month, and on a certain day of the month, not forgetting the hour of the day to the minute of the hour, and attendant circumstances to swear loud witness to it, you had mortally offended them.

And you receive your blow: you are sure to get it: the one passion of those women is for vengeance.

They taste a wound from the lightest touch, and they nurse the venom for you.

Possibly you may in their presence have had occasion to praise the military virtues of the builder of Carnarvon Castle.