Failing all other, as a last resource,

"He would have trafficked in his wife,"—she said.

If for that cause they quarrelled, 't was, I fear,

Rather from reclamation of her rights

To wifely independence, than as wronged

Otherwise by the course of life proposed:

Since, on escape to Paris back again,

From horror and the husband,—ill-exchanged

For safe maternal home recovered thus,—

I find her domiciled and dominant