[ Responding to being told that the law supposes a — Charles Dickens

[ Responding to being told that the law supposes a wife acts under a husband’s direction :] “If the law supposes that,” said Mr. Bumble, . . . “the law is a ass—a idiot. If that’s the eye of the law, the law’s a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience—by experience.”