"I forbid you to carry the farce of your candidature any farther."
"That I readily undertake to do. I promise you it shall be no farce."
"Farce or no farce, I command you to take your name from off that list." I regret to say that Henrietta snapped her fingers in the air. "Am I to understand that you snap your fingers at the expression of my wishes?"
"You have not even troubled yourself to do that. You have known all along what my wishes were, yet you have chosen to entirely ignore my most sacred aspirations."
"Henrietta, the husband is the head of the wife."
"Who says so? Your friend Tyler? It is notorious that he scoffs at the sanctity of the marriage tie."
"Don't call that man my friend."
"No? Do you authorise me to state in public that you repudiate his friendship?"
"I won't chop phrases with you. I will merely remind you that at the altar you promised me obedience."
"Suppose you were to instruct me to commit murder, would you consider it my duty to carry the promise even so far?"