And what do you see
 that I can possibly do to help in the improvement of
 our property? asked my wife.
 
 Why, said I, of
 course you must try to do as well as possible what
 the gods made you capable of doing and the law
 sanctions. 
 And pray, what is
 that? said she. Things of no small
 moment, I fancy, replied I, unless, indeed, the
 tasks over which the queen bee in the hive presides
 are of small moment.