but the last recollection he had as he drifted off to sleep was of his outrageously pretty , impertinent young bride holding up her fingers and informing him with saucy superiority , `` forty is this many- '' chapter nineteen jenny climbed out of the wooden tub , wrapped herself in the soft , light blue wrapper a serving maid handed her , and then parted the curtains that hid an alcove where the shoulder-high tub was kept .