For the matter of that, Sofia herself might have been the dupe of this popular delusionwhich Mama Thérèse did her best to encourage by never referring to Dupont save as "mon mari"had they been less imprudent in recriminations which had passed between them in private when Sofia was of an age so tender that she was presumed to be safely immature of mind.

Until he could reload, only the tradition of the sexes lent him theoretical superiority; whereas he was in fact a man well on the thither side of middle-age, his virility sapped by long indulgence of unbridled appetites; while Sofia was a woman in the fullest flush of her first mature powers.

You must admit that Sofia is a most agreeable place.

SOFIA (50), the capital, is the seat of a university.