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Robert A. Heinlein - A Comedy Of Justice
Atec Февраль 27 2008 02:52:13
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.55; we left it with $8.80... and desert outfits for each of us, a comb (for two), a toothbrush (also for two), a knapsack, a safety razor, plus a minimum of underwear and socks - all second hand but alleged to be sterilized.
I am not good at tactics, not with women. We were outside and down the highway to an open place where we could talk privately before Margrethe would talk to me and I did not realize that I had already lost.
Without stopping, she said, 'Well, dear? You had something to discuss.'
'Uh, with that skirt in place your clothing is acceptable. Barely. But you are not to appear in-public in those shorts. Is that understood?'
'I intended to wear just the shorts. If the weather is warm. As it is.'
'But, Margrethe, I told you not to -'She was unsnapping the skirt, taking it off. 'You are defying me!'
She folded it, up neatly. 'May I place this in the knapsack? Please?'
'You are deliberately disobeying me!'
'But, Alec, I don't have to obey you and you don't have to obey me.'
'But - Look, dear, be reasonable. You know I don't usually give orders. But a wife must obey her husband. Are you my wife?'
'You told me so. So I am until you tell me otherwise.'
'Then it is your duty to obey me.'
'No, Alec.'
'But that is a wife's first duty!'
'I don't agree.'
'But - This is madness! Are you leaving me?'
'No. Only if you divorce me.'
'I don't believe in divorce. Divorce is wrong
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