I don't know that it is a misfortune for a woman to marry a man she can rule." "Yes, it is," she answered.

"She always despises him.

I should prefer one who would beat me to such a man." "But if you intend to carry out the purpose you had in coming to court, you--" But she interrupted me, speaking slowly, almost musingly: "The purpose I had, perhaps, but not the one I have.

I did not know myself.

I did not know.