THE TAMING OF THE SHREW. 59

‘Here is a wonder !”

‘“T wonder what it means,” said Hortensio.

“It means peace,” said Petruchio, “ and love, and quiet life.”

“Well,” said Baptista, “ you have won the wager, and I will add
another twenty thousand crowns to her dowry—another dowry for
another daughter—for she is as changed as if she were some one else.”

So Petruchio won his wager, and had in Katharine always a loving
wife and a true, and now he had broken her proud and-angry spirit he
loved her well, and there was nothing ever but love between those two.
And so they lived happy ever afterwards.