"Oh, my dear, you'll find that all the grumbling won't be on your side!"
"I hope I shall bring my husband up too well for that!" said Astrid. Estelle snorted.
"If only my dear Peter were alive!" sighed Fru Bjork, "he was such an amiable man. I never knew him to grumble."
"Ah, well, there's no telling," said Estelle, "he might have in time."
"My blessed Peter would never have grumbled," said Fru Bjork with finality. Astrid giggled.
"I should hate a man with no spirit, there would be no satisfaction in managing him."
The old Swedish lady raised her head.
"My dear, it is most unseemly for a young woman to talk of 'managing' her husband. Young people nowadays have lost the virtue of obedience."
"Obedience is for children and the feeble-minded," said Astrid. The old lady gasped and raised her mittened hand.
"My dear, my dear, a wife should always obey her husband!"