They admire you for your brains, but they would have fallen down before your wife, if you had given her half a chance." "Ah, that's bosh--what do you know!" exclaimed Jean Jacques fiercely, but he was fascinated too by the argument of the man whose life he was going to take.
"I know the truth, my money-man.

Do you think she'd have looked at me if you'd been to her what she thought I might be?
No, bien sur! Did you take her where she could see the world?
No.

Did you bring her presents?
No.

Did you say, 'Come along, we will make a little journey to see the world ?' No.

Do you think that a woman can sit and darn your socks, and tidy your room, and bake you pancakes in the morning while you roast your toes, and be satisfied with just that, and not long for something outside ?" Jean Jacques was silent.