Ah, Ischomachus, said
 I, that is just what I want to hear from you. Did
 you yourself train your wife to be of the right
 sort, or did she know her household duties when you
 received her from her parents? Why, what knowledge
 could she have had,
 Socrates ,
 when I took her for my wife? She was not yet fifteen
 years old when she came to me, and up to that time
 she had lived in leading-strings, seeing, hearing
 and saying as little as possible.