And the magician who has wrought this wonderful transformation⁠—the foreign husband who has tamed this once wayward English woman till her own relations hardly know her again⁠—the Count himself? What of the Count?

This in two words: He looks like a man who could tame anything. If he had married a tigress, instead of a woman, he would have tamed the tigress. If he had married

me

, I should have made his cigarettes, as his wife does⁠—I should have held my tongue when he looked at me, as she holds hers.