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"What?" Nina asked.
"I want to divorce James Black. Tell me, if I act like an absolute terror in front of him every day, doing things he hates, would someone like him who prefers gentle & considerate, noble wives and mothers quiet as a little white rabbit, actually propose to divorce me because he can't stand it?" Jane Sampson said with a pair of eyes full of hope, shining with a thief-like brightness by the time she finished her sentence.
"Impossible," Nina answered succinctly. "Brother James Black will discipline you. Aren't you afraid of him?"
Jane Sampson hesitated, "What if I'm not afraid of him, and he can't control me?"
