"Runciman knows on which side his bread is buttered.

He can make his money out of these swearing-tearing fellows.

He can send in his bills, and get them paid too.

And it's all very well for Larry Twentyman to be hobbing and nobbing with the likes of them Botseys.
But for a father of a family like you to be put off his business by what Mr.Runciman says is a shame." "I shall manage my business as I think fit," said the attorney.
"And when we're all in the poor-house what'll you do then ?" said Mrs.Masters,--with her handkerchief out at the spur of the moment.
Whenever she roused her husband to a state of bellicose ire by her taunts she could always reduce him again by her tears.

Being well aware of this he would bear the taunts as long as he could, knowing that the tears would be still worse.