'Paul smiled fondly at his wife. "Even if you succeed in convincing us that every man is a coward, nothing will induce me to accept the dogma that every woman is a shrew."
"Now for my part," remarked Greenstreet, "I considered that by far the more plausible of the two tenets of Mrs Seaton's creed."
Isabel laughed gaily. "Therefore you must see that when a woman behaves like an angel it is all the more credit to her."
"Doubtless it would be; but personally I have never come across an instance," replied the author.'
from In Subjection by Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler (Chapter VI)
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