56 THE TAMING OF THE SHREW.

Katharine was pleased with the pretty new dress and cap that the
tailor had made for her, but Petruchio found fault with everything,
flung the cap and gown on the floor, vowing his dear wife should not
wear any such foolish things.

“T will have them,” cried Katharine. “ All gentlewomen wear such
caps as these—”

‘“When you are gentle you shall have one too,” he answered, “ and
not till then.” When he had driven away the tailor with angry words—
but privately asking his friend to see him paid—Petruchio said—

‘““Come, Kate, let’s go to your father’s, shabby as we are, for, as the
sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honour peereth in the meanest
habit. It is about seven o'clock now. We shall easily get there by
dinner-time.” .

“It’s nearly two,” said Kate, but civilly enough, for she had grown
to see that she could not bully her husband, as she had done her father
and her sister; “it’s nearly two, and it will be supper-time hefore we get
there.”

“Tt shall be seven,” said Petruchio, obstinately, “before I start.
Why, whatever I say or de, or think, you do nothing but contradict.
I won't go to-day, and before I do go, it shall be what o’clock I say it is.”

At last they started for her father’s house. “Look at the moon,”
said he.

“Tt’s the sun,” said Katharine, and indeed it was.

“Tsay it is the moon. Contradicting again! It shall be sun or
moon, or whatever I choose, or I won’t take you to your father’s.”

Then Katharine gave in, once and for all. ‘“ What you will have it
named,” she said, ‘it is, and so it shall be so for Katharine.” And so it
was, for from that moment Katharine felt that she had met her master,
and never again showed her naughty tempers to him, or anyone else.

So they journeyed on to Baptista’s house, and arriving there, they
found all folks keeping Bianca’s wedding feast, and that of another newly
married couple, Hortensio and his wife. They were made welcome, and
sat down to the feast, and all was merry, save that Hortensio’s wife,
seeing Katharine subdued to her husband, thought she could safely say
many disagreeable things, that in the old days, when Katharine was free
and froward, she would not have dared to say. But Katharine answered