'Do you not wish that yourself ?' She shook her head.

'Is it not the safest condition in which a woman can live ?' 'How shall any one be safe among the dangers of this world, Nicholas ?' She habitually called her husband by his Christian name, but she was the only living being who did so.
'More safe then ?' said he.

'It is the natural condition of a woman.' 'I do not know.

Sin is natural.' 'Very likely.

No doubt.