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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: requite by kindness the well-behaved whose presence is a blessing to
your house; or maybe to chasten the bad character, should such an one
appear. But the greatest joy of all will be to prove yourself my
better; to make me your faithful follower; knowing no dread lest as
the years advance you should decline in honour in your household, but
rather trusting that, though your hair turn gray, yet, in proportion
as you come to be a better helpmate to myself and to the children, a
better guardian of our home, so will your honour increase throughout
the household as mistress, wife, and mother, daily more dearly prized.
Since," I added, "it is not through excellence of outward form,[37]
but by reason of the lustre of virtues shed forth upon the life of
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