The Fall of Troy Quotes

“She has no greater desire than to be your wife, Herr Oberman." Madame Chrysanthis gave a slight nod, as if making some formal remark for duty's sake. " We have taught her that a wife is but a shadow of her husband.".......................
She would be dutiful in this of course. Her mother, Madame Chrysanthis had taught her that her wife obeys her husband in small requests so that she might rule him in more important matters.”
― Peter Ackroyd, The Fall of Troy