Petty Troubles of Married Life, Part I by Honoré De Balzac

Is it advantageous for a man not to know what will please his wife after their marriage? Some women (this still occurs in the country) are innocent enough to tell promptly what they want and what they like. But in Paris, nearly every woman feels a kind of enjoyment in seeing a man wistfully obedient to her heart, her desires, her caprices -- three expressions for the same thing! -- and anxiously going round and round, half crazy and desperate, like a dog that has lost his master.

They call this _being loved_, poor things! And a good many of them say to themselves, as did Caroline, "How will he manage?"