Bhisma said O blessed lady, knowing that one who has no wealth of his own cannot stake the wealth belonging to others and (knowing also) that wives are always at the command and disposals of their husbands, I am unable to decide properly the point put forward by you. The ways of morality is subtle.
भीष्म उवाच न धर्मसौक्ष्यात् सुभगे विवेक्तु शक्नोमि ते प्रश्नमिमं यथावत्। अस्वाम्यशक्तः पणितुं परस्वं स्त्रियाश्च भर्तुर्वशतां समीक्ष्य।॥