Verse 2.— While they behold your chaste conversation. That is, your conduct, the pure life you are living as a Christian woman. Possibly your course before your conver­sion appears before the husband's mind in contrast to the course now adopted. This is a mighty power, an argument irrefutable and irresistible. Coupled with fear. The disposition now shown of avoiding and shrinking from acts which before your conversion were performed with readiness and without hesitation.