Let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself.'" He paused and Violet finished the quotation.
"'And the wife see that she reverence her husband.' Ah, it is easy for me to do that with such a husband as mine," she added.

"Also, I remember that in Paul's epistle to Titus there is a passage, where the aged women are bidden to teach the younger ones to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children.

And in the next verse to be obedient to their husbands.

I think I have kept that command as far as I could without getting any orders from mine," she concluded, smiling up into his eyes.
"Yes, indeed, dearest," he said, returning the smile and drawing her closer to his side with a fond gesture, "where one's slightest wish is promptly and eagerly complied with a command would be altogether superfluous.

And though I consider it wise and right--yes, an unquestionable duty to exact prompt, cheerful obedience from my children, I do not think I should ask it of my wife.