The School for Wives

“I must find out from Agnes what I want to know about him, without her knowing that I’m trying to find out from her what she knows about him, and of course, without him knowing what I know about her. Here she comes…”

Old Monsieur Arnolphe is determined to create “the perfect wife”, uneducated and devoted. He keeps his orphaned ward, Agnes, completely isolated and uneducated until their marriage. Agnes, however, now of age, has other plans.