“And if I had grown cold? You would laugh at my corpse and run off with this…this Merdi?” “No. If you had grown cold, I would have been laid out right next to you, for I would have succumbed to death by sheer embarrassment. That this is the woman chosen for me to marry. One who does not even have the sense to get to her feet when a fight is over. One who does not even have the courage to dance with her husband. ”

