His handsome allowance was paid on the first of every month, and she exacted no account of expenditures.

Yet she contrived to make him and herself the laughing stock of the place by her _naive_ ignorance of the truth that the situation was peculiar.

She sportively rated her lord in the hearing of others, for extravagance in dress, horses and other entertainments; affected to rail at the expense of "keeping a husband," and, now and then, playfully threatened to "cut off supplies" if he did not do this or that.

In short, with unintentional satire, she copied to the letter the speech and tone of the average husband to his dependent wife.
"Only that and nothing more." Her purse-pride was obvious, but as inoffensive as purse-pride can be.

She lacked refinement, but she did not lack heart.