The little contretemps seemed to have changed Ernestina...
>The little contretemps seemed to have changed Ernestina; she was very deferential to Charles, so dutiful-wifely that he complained he was beginning to feel like a Turkish pasha - and unoriginally begged her to contradict him about something lest he forgot theirs was to be a Christian marriage.<
John Fowles (1969) The French Lieutenant Woman, ch. 16
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