She thought she could play with a second husband as she did with the first, and she was gravely mistaken.

She complained to me of a thousand acts of tyranny--every one of them, I could see, merely a piece of rude commonsense.

The man must be calling himself an idiot for marrying her.
I could only listen with a long face.

Argument with Emily is out of the question.

And I shall take good care not to go there again." Eve asked many questions, and approved his resolve.
"You are not the person to console and instruct her.