Fénelon

Fenelon has said that in a certain stage of piety there is much of self, and Coley was evidently in that stage.

“Nothing is more neglected than the education of daughters,” said Fenelon, in the first sentence of his noted work on the subject.

Fenelon accepted this servile devotion, regarding it as a part of the woman's penance for sins done in the past.

The Madame was fifty; Fenelon was forty-seven—they certainly were old enough to know better, but they did not.