Madame Bovary - Page 195/262

"If you liked," he said, "a lesson from time to time, that wouldn't

after all be very ruinous."

"But lessons," she replied, "are only of use when followed up."

And thus it was she set about obtaining her husband's permission to go

to town once a week to see her lover. At the end of a month she was even

considered to have made considerable progress.