Study your wife closely, for the next four-and-twenty hours. If your good lady doesn't exhibit something in the shape of a contradiction in that time, Heaven help you! – you have married a monster.
Again a tongue-in-cheek laugh. The Victorians believed women to be changeable creatures controlled by the moon and their emotions. So when faced with an UNchangebale creature- beware, it just might be an unnatural monster!
