"It may save her future heartaches."
"I wonder if a woman's point of view is ever a man's point of view, Anthony?"
"Only when two people love each other very much, dear. Then each tries to look at life through the other's eyes. We men would grow brutal without you to curb us. But, on the other hand, you need, now and then, the masculine common-sense view-point."
"I don't want the common-sense point of view in this, Anthony."
He laid his hands on her shoulders and stood looking down at her.
"Diana."
"Yes."
"What is it, dear?"
"I don't quite like—being curbed, Anthony."
She was laughing a little for, in spite of her rebellion, there was something stimulating in the thought of his masterfulness. "You see, I've always ruled," she said.