[Mr. Jeeves]

Once upon a time, there was a truth, universally acknowledged, that a man with a powerful job and a beautiful house must be in want of a wife – preferably of the trophy variety.

These gentlemen went wrong in simply failing to realize that "trophy" and "trophy wife" are not synonyms. ;)

[linda_22003]

I can't help thinking of the exchange in "Everybody Loves Raymond" where the mother refers to herself as a 'trophy wife' and her husband says, "A trophy wife? What contest in Hell did I win?"