What are your reactions to Empress Xu's description of the nature of marriage

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

Compare and contrast the treatment of different religions by rulers of the arab empire as soon as you can with i've been working on this test for like an hour and a half and i'm super stressed : (

Why do you think this exchange happened in a private meeting?