if he transgress her limits. In the country it is asked "Does he drink?"
In the city it is asked "Does he get drunk?" The two methods are
essentially the results of two conditions. The mistake of the one
locality is to apply its own preliminary to the other. Now, again, to
this frightful question of woman-torture: Society knows all about woman.
It knows that the wife must be the arbiter of her own sufferings. Her
brother, being less wise than Society, separates the wife from