So she hung crying, lopsided and ludicrous on the seat of the buggy […] . People passing looked at her and wondered why she was taking on. There was something almost obscene about a strong, healthy woman blubbering in the sunlight in that public place.

[…] to account for the stability of a social structure which greatly misfavours certain social strata of society.

This emendation is echoed in Thekla's reunion with Paul outside the city, where she offers the following prayer of thanksgiving: God, King and Blessed Creator of everything, and Father of your great and only begotten Child, I give you thanks.

[…] and slimy, creepy-crawly dungeons with chains for your hands and feet; […]