Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.
Woman magic. A quality that could bring great joy or havoc or both in equal measure.
The nicest men in the world were horribly cruel. They took no great pleasure from it, it was just part of being a male, with a perpetual deep gulf between the sexes.
Certain women because of their female power and seductiveness could bring destruction to a family.
Tall, elegant, vital, scornful. A man like that could rock a woman to her very core.
Women were the very devil, at the mercy of their frail strength.