“What are you thinking of?” said the husband. “Just when we are going to re-build the stables! We haven’t the means to buy a piano.”
“What do you mean?” she replied. “Why haven’t we got the means? Isn’t my money sufficient?”
“Your money?”
“Yes, my money, my dowry.”
“That has now become the property of the family.”
“That is to say yours?”
“No, the family’s. The family is a small community, the only one which possesses common property which, as a rule, is administered by the husband.”
“Why should he administer it and not the wife?”
“Because he has more time to give to it, since he does not bear children.”
“Why couldn’t they administer it jointly?”